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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092273
Fabric Type: 9780971720008
Legal Disclaimer: 0971720002
Maximum Color Depth: Clinton Cook Publishing Corp.
Metal Type: Clinton Cook Publishing Corp.
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 512
Total External Bays Free: November 01, 2002
Total Firewire Ports: Clinton Cook Publishing Corp.
Clinton Cook Publishing Corp.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Buried under decades of stereotype and parody, the true history of the female companions of the Great Depression's bank-robbing gang is uncovered. Don't Call Us Molls carefully examines the legacy of the Dillinger women using eyewitness and descendants' accounts as well as courtroom and prison records. This book explores the collective experience of these fugitives and offers a thoughtful, well-informed commentary on past attitudes toward the marginalized women of the day-the lawbreakers, the informers, and a lone female sheriff. FBI memos, court transcripts, and never-before-published photos reveal the events experienced by women under siege, resurrecting historical figures and their private behavior. This history lays bare the personal lives of the wives and girlfriends of the public enemies of the 1930s and examines how their conflicting loyalties were challenged and exploited by unrelenting pressure of the United States government to betray their men.
Average Rating: 
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This is a great book on not only John Dillinger but Henry Peirponts and aothers of the era .... I have always enjoyed reading about the Crime wave during the depression and this gives a look in to the ladies behind those bad boys... I am sad to say that I lost this book on a flight to London.... But I have just gotten another one to have in my collection... Any true crime buff would enjoy this read....
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The book is quite good and detailed, overly detailed. It was as if after years of research the writer felt compelled to put in every note on each subject she had. Could be improved immensely by condensing and tightening the writing. Still, it is a worthwhile addition to the study of the 1930s crime era.
If you've read other books on the outlaws themselves, you realize this book is more from the women's perspective and doesn't always jive with other accounts as to what has generally ... Read More
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The book has an academic structure of sorts including notes for each chapter, an index and lots of photographs. However there is no list of photographs and they are not all referenced. Regarding the notes they do did not include all the information I expected and occasionally where I thought part of the story deserved a footnote for further explanation there was none. For example on page 372 the murder of nurse Myrtle Jordan is never fully explained and on page 377 a photograph of the Barker Death House ... Read More
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I believe that anyone who is interested in the Middle Western crime wave during the Great Depression is sure to enjoy this book. Ellen Poulsen leaves no stone unturned in this meticulously researched chronicle of the women behind the public enemies who shot their way into the headlines during the Thirties. The author provides us with a wealth of little known facts about Evelyn Frechette, Marie Conforti (real name Comforti), the Delaney sisters, Bess Green, Opal Long, Helen Gillis (Mrs. Baby Face Nelson), ... Read More
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Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang
This is a fascinating book that details the lives of the most famous "Dillinger Women"...Polly Hamilton, Anna "The Lady In Red" Sage and the love of his life, Evelyn "Billie" Frechette. It goes much deeper, profiling lesser-known girlfriends and female associates of the Dillinger gang such as Pat Cherrington, Opal Long, Mary Kinder, Beth Green, Marie Comforti, Jean Delaney Compton, Pearl Elliott and Helen Gillis as well as female associates ... Read More
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