Crime in America (signed)

A very good copy in gray, white and red printed wrappers, including photos on back cover and inside both covers Slightly scuffed and worn at corners and spine edges, but otherwise in excellent shape Inscribed by author on half title page

Carey Estes Kefauver (1903 â€" 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee He served in the US House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 until his death in 1963
After leading a much-publicized investigation into organized crime in the early 1950s, he twice sought his party's nomination for President of the United States In 1956, he was selected by the Democratic National Convention to be the running mate of presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson He still held his US Senate seat after the Stevensonâ€"Kefauver ticket lost to the Eisenhowerâ€"Nixon ticket Kefauver was named chair of the US Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee in 1957 and served as its chairman until his death
In 1950, Kefauver headed a US Senate committee investigating organized crime The committee, officially known as the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Crime in Interstate Commerce, was popularly known as the Kefauver committee or the Kefauver hearings The committee held hearings in fourteen cities and heard testimony from over 600 witnesses Many of the witnesses were high-profile crime bosses, including such well-known names as Willie Moretti, Joe Adonis, and Frank Costello, the latter making himself famous by refusing to allow his face to be filmed during his questioning and then staging a much-publicized walkout A number of politicians also appeared before the committee and saw their careers ruined Among them were former Governor Harold G Hoffman of New Jersey and Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York CityThe committee's hearings, which were televised live, just as many Americans were first buying televisions, made Kefauver nationally famous and introduced many Americans to the concept of a criminal organization known as the Mafia for the first time[11] In fact, in 1951, Kefauver appeared as a celebrity guest on the new game show What's My Line? discussing the hearings briefly with the panel, showing how popular these hearings were with early television viewers