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portada Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number one
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2011
Language
English
Pages
268
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.41 kg.
ISBN13
9780199769162
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Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number one

Elliott J. Gorn (Author) · Oxford University Press · Paperback

Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number one - Gorn, Elliott J.

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Synopsis "Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number one "

In an era that witnessed the rise of celebrity outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger was the most famous and flamboyant of them all. Reports on the man and his misdeeds--spiced with accounts of his swashbuckling bravado and cool daring--provided an America worn down by the Great Depression with a salacious mix of sex and violence that proved irresistible. In Dillinger's Wild Ride, Elliott J. Gorn provides 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. As Dillinger's wild year unfolded, the tale grew larger and larger in newspapers and newsreels, and even today, Dillinger is the subject of pulp literature, serious poetry and fiction, and films, including a new movie starring Johnny Depp. What is the power of his story? Why has it lingered so long? Who was John Dillinger? 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. Dillinger's story has much to tell us about our enduring fascination with outlaws, crime andviolence, about the complexity of our transition from rural to urban life, and about the transformation of America during the Great Depression. Dillinger's Wild Ride is a compulsively readable story with an unforgettable protagonist.

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