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| Author | : Sue L. Hamilton |
| Publisher | : ABDO & Daughters |
| Total Pages | : 38 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780939179633 |
An account of the bank robberies and killings by "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his death by FBI agents.
| Author | : Trudy Irene Scee |
| Publisher | : Down East Books |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2015-11-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1608935124 |
Al Brady was an armed robber and murderer in the 1930s and became the FBI's Public Enemy #1. The crime spree of Brady and his gang brought them from the south and midwest to Maine. A hardware store owner in Bangor became suspicious when Brady requested a large supply of ammunition and paid with an equally large amount of cash, and notified police. The FBI was waiting in ambush for them when they arrived to pick up the ammo. The rest is history, as on October 12, 1937, Brady and an accomplice were killed in a hail of bullets in broad daylight in downtown Bangor. This spectacular public gun-battle has become an integral part of Maine lore. Now, historian Trudy Irene Scee tells the story, including Brady's growing up in Indiana, his criminal exploits, and what brought he and his cohorts to Maine.
| Author | : Larry McMurtry |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2010-06-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1439129681 |
The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car. Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of the legendary American folk hero Charley Floyd, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.
| Author | : Bryan Burrough |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 2009-04-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110103274X |
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
| Author | : Michael Wallis |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2011-07-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0393342182 |
"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
| Author | : Elliott J. Gorn |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2011-09-29 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0199769168 |
John Dillinger was one of the most famous and flamboyant celebrity outlaws, and this book illuminates the significnace of his tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy of crime and violence, and the transformation of America during the Great Depression.
| Author | : John Fleury |
| Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
| Total Pages | : 93 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
★★★ The Original Public Enemy of the F.B.I. ★★★ Before John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson made the term "Public Enemy" famous, there was Alvin Karpis--one of the ruthless leaders of the Barker-Karpis gang. It was him that J. Edgar Hoover first thought worthy of the title Public Enemy In a page-turning style, this true crime book traces his criminal origins from his young days as a bootlegger to his ultimate demise.
| Author | : Jeffery S. King |
| Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780873386500 |
Charles Arthur Floyd, aka Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), was one of the last so-called Robin Hood outlaws. He engaged in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot him down near East Liverpool, Ohio, on October 22, 1934. This detailed account of his life, crimes and death makes extensive use of FBI reports, government records, local newspapers and contemporary journalistic accounts.
| Author | : Colin Wilson |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 756 |
| Release | : 2014-10-21 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1629149381 |
A collection of the most shocking, horrifying accounts of true crime ever. Evil knows no boundaries. In 1614, Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory died, sealed in a tiny closet in her castle. Her crimes? She was rumored to have bathed in the blood of her victims, which may have numbered in the hundreds. More recently, Russia’s Andrei Chikatilo, the United States’ Ted Bundy, and Great Britain’s Peter Sutcliffe added to the horrors humans inflict upon their fellow man. Featuring maps, callouts, and facts that follow these criminals’ trails of crime, Evil is a groundbreaking volume. It explores some of the most famous crime cases of real-life murder and mayhem. In this epic account of history’s most infamous murder cases, leading true-crime researcher and writer Colin Wilson teams up with his son Damon Wilson to masterfully recount the shocking details of more than sixty cases of murder and mayhem. Illustrated with hundreds of color and black-and-white photos, Evil features images of criminals, forensic evidence, and key personalities and places that put each crime in historical context. In a continuing search for the meaning in murder, the Wilsons create one of the definitive books in the field of criminology.
| Author | : Bryan Burrough |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 644 |
| Release | : 2009-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780143115861 |
Analyzes Depression-era bank robbery and its most notorious figures, discussing the factors that influenced the period's crime rates, the formation and early work of the FBI, and the contributions of J. Edgar Hoover.
