Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
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Here is a riveting account of the year between 1933 and 1934, when the Dillinger gang pulled over a dozen bank jobs, and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars. A dozen men--police, FBI agents, gangsters, and civilians--lost their lives in the rampage, and American newspapers breathlessly followed every shooting and jail-break. Gorn illuminates the significance of Dillinger's tremendous fame and the endurance of his legacy, arguing that he represented an American fascination with primitive freedom against social convention.
ISBN
9780195304831
Publication Date
6-4-2009
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
Oxford, United Kingdom
Keywords
Gangsters, Crime, Criminal, Criminal Investigation, Prison
Disciplines
History | Social History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Gorn, Elliot, "Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One" (2009). Faculty Books. 252.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/252
