Stephen Duncombe: 2 books
The Bobbed Haired Bandit
A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a “baby automatic,” a fur coat, and a fashionable...
DIY Utopia
Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have given up on the possibility of positive collective change. Below the surface, however, alternative culture is rife with artist-led projects, activist movements, and subcultural communities of interest...