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Together, the Godfather novels and movies and The Sopranos bracket almost 40 years of a pop-culture love affair with the mob.(The Week)(Brief article)

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From: National Review
Date: 20070709
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* Together, the Godfather novels and movies and The Sopranos bracket almost 40 years of a pop-culture love affair with the mob. The first all-American icon, from James Fenimore Cooper to John Wayne, was the frontiersman. The West moved west, from upstate New York to Monument Valley; sometimes the hero wore a sheriff's star, sometimes not. But he was the good man, doing the right thing in a violent world. As the frontier vanished, he was joined by an urban twin, the detective. Mean streets replaced mean mesas, but the story was the same. Suddenly, in the late 20th century, we fell ...

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