Dillinger's Wild Ride The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One

by Gorn, Elliott J.

• ISBN13: 9780195304831
• ISBN10: 0195304837
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Elliott J. Gorn is Professor of History and American Studies at Brown University. He is the author of The Manly Art: Bare-Knuckle Prize Fighting in America and Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, among other books.

Table of Contents

Chronology	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
"He Would Try Hard to Be a Man"	p. 3
"The Farmer Turns Gangster"	p. 27
"John Dillinger, Houdini of the Outlaws"	p. 55
"Pulling That Off Was Worth Ten Years of My Life"	p. 85
"Dillinger Land"	p. 119
"You Can't Get Away with It"	p. 147
Dillinger's Ghost	p. 173
Acknowledgments	p. 201
Notes	p. 205
Index	p. 255
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