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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092277
Fabric Type: 9781581824506
Legal Disclaimer: 1581824505
Maximum Color Depth: Cumberland House Publishing
Metal Type: Cumberland House Publishing
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 266
Total External Bays Free: October 30, 2005
Total Firewire Ports: Cumberland House Publishing
Cumberland House Publishing
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As the roaring twenties faded and the Great Depression began, several inmates of the Indiana prison system began an association that eventually erupted into violence and death across the Midwest. One of the members of the group, John Dillinger, spent time at both the Indiana State Reformatory at Pendleton and the state prison at Michigan City from 1924 to 1933. History of a sort was in the making, and the idea of the Dillinger gang was born behind these walls.
Paroled in May 1933 after serving a prison term for attempted robbery, Dillinger organized a gang that spread terror across the Midwest from 1933 to 1934, perhaps killing as many as 16 persons and robbing as many as 20 banks. He escaped jail twice and was declared "Public Enemy No. One" before being killed by FBI agents in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DILLINGER GANG is about the nine major members of the Dillinger Gang: John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Homer Van Meter, Eddie Green, Harry Pierpont, Charley Makely, Russell Lee Clark, John Hamilton, and Thomas Carroll. With the exception of Clark, who received a life sentence behind bars, all of the gangsters met violent deaths before the end of 1934. While several serious full-length biographies have been written about Dillinger and one on Nelson, there are no major biographies of the other gang members.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DILLINGER GANG corrects this oversight. Utilizing FBI files, court records, prison records, local newspapers, and books as sources, Jeffery S. King provides insight into crime conditions in the 1920s and the war on crime in the early 1930s. The rise of the FBI and bureau officials Melvin Purvis and J. Edgar Hoover is an important part of the story, as is background information about the extensive criminal activities of the Dillinger gangsters before they joined the gang and the ultimate fates of the Dillinger-era lawmen and criminals.
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Well, as we know it's good to be self-confident, but some believe John Dillinger went over the top when he announced to a group of bank employees and customers, "Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!"
Millions of words have been written about Dillinger, however this book examines not just Dillinger but members of his gang as well. While these men may not have received the notoriety that ... Read More
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A bland but well documented chronicle of John Dillinger's criminal associates. The author provides everything you might possibly care to know about the supporting players in the Dillinger saga. Mr. King spent twenty-five years as a reference librarian for the U.S. Census Bureau, and perhaps that's part of my problem with this narrative. Although I am sure many might disagree, there were times I felt I were reading a tersely worded, formal report as opposed to a well-written compilation of the events ... Read More
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If you just want the facts about the Dillinger Gang then this is the book for you. The books flows smoothly and is easy to read, individual chapters are allocated to each gang member which details their family life, upbringing and their drift into a life of crime. Many of them lost one or both parents very early in life, maybe this pushed them over the edge to crime l do not know, but low paying, mundane jobs were not an option for the Dillinger gang.
Van Meter, Nelson and Pierpont were vicious, ... Read More
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Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (8/06)
"The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger Gang" is really interesting. Author, Jeffrey S. King, extensively researched the background of the Dillinger gang. He offers pictures, references, quotes from people and letters and the personal history of each person in the gang.
Dillinger himself was either seen as "Public Enemy Number One" or he was viewed as a modern day Robin Hood. The later comparison was actually really sad because while ... Read More
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This is not a book of rehashed material, as one recent reviewer complained. Little of the biographical material on John Dillinger is new--after all, millions of words were written in his own time, and the biographies continue to flow in--but there is a goldmine of new information on all the major members of the two Dillinger Gangs. As Bill Helmer comments on the back cover, "Dillinger didn't do it alone," and King's goal in this book was to cover the criminal backgrounds of John's accomplices, something no one ... Read More
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