{"product_id":"hang-em-high-bob-herzberg-9780786468386","title":"Hang 'Em High: Law and Disorder in Western Films and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e For more than a century the Western film has proven to be an enduring genre. At the dawn of the 20th century, in the same years that \u003ci\u003eThe Great Train Robbery\u003c\/i\u003e begat a film genre, Owen Wister wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Virginian\u003c\/i\u003e, which began a new literary genre. From the beginning, both literature and film would usually perpetuate the myth of the Old West as a place where justice always triumphed and all concerned (except the villains) pursued the Law. The facts, however, reflect abuses of due process: lynch mobs and hired gunslingers rather than lawmen regularly pursued lawbreakers; vengeance rather than justice was often employed; and even in courts of law justice didn't always prevail. Some films and novels bucked this trend, however. This book discusses the many Western films as well as the novels they are based on, that illustrate distortions of the law in the Old West and the many ways, most of them marked by vengeance, in which its characters pursued justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bob Herzberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786468386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786468386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Bob Herzberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482447470847,"sku":"9780786468386","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59da7080-c52b-45fc-8846-8c3a4ba4e654.jpg?v=1715998561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hang-em-high-bob-herzberg-9780786468386","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}