Assembling a rich archive of images and texts from the eighteenthcentury to the present, Rachel Hall offers a history of the "wanted" poster, examining its uses, patterns of circulation, and formal development as an iconicprint genre. Her narrative covers a wide range of images: execution broadsides, runaway slave notices, private detective posters, FBI posters, artists'approximations, and the depiction of key figures in the "war on terror." Hall'scultural analysis has profound implications for our understanding of contemporaryAmerican fantasies of vulnerability, projection of enemies around the world, andadoption of security measures in domestic and foreign policy."Wanted "will appeal not only to students andscholars in literary studies, cultural studies, and art history but also to readersmore generally interested in society's outlaws and in the test of wills between lawenforcement and criminal evasion.