| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780195304831 | | Publisher: Oxford University Press USA | | Publish Date: 6/4/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 209878319 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.75H x 6.75L x 0.75T |
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| | | In an era that had witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws, John Dillinger had been the most famous and flamboyant of them all. Gorn provides a riveting account of the period between 1933 and 1934, when the Dillinger gang robbed more than a dozen banks.
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Elliot Gorn reports on the exploits of legendary criminal John Dillinger, focusing on the year between 1933 and 1934, when Dillinger and his gang robbed more than a dozen different banks and killed 12 men in various shootouts. Gorn details how the legend of Dillinger grew with each heist, dividing the nation between those who condemned his criminal actions and those who lauded him as a modern day Robin Hood. Dillinger's crime spree came to a bloody end in 1934 when he was gunned down by police outside a Chicago movie theater. Gorn's account of the year leading up to this violent conclusion is filled with riveting action and insightful analysis of Dillinger's persistent legacy in American history.
| Praise| "A highly readable assessment of a supreme antihero's outsize impact on the American consciousness." - Mike Tribby 06/01/2009 "Gorn...tries hard to separate fact from myth, and he makes plausible arguments for why Dillinger captured the popular imagination....[and] fixed himself in the American imagination as a romantic figure." - Jonathan Yardley 06/28/2009 |
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