Criminals and Folk Heroes: Gangsters and the FBI in the 1930's

by Robert Underhill

During the Great Depression, writers of True Crime could take the decade off: life was imitating art so dramatically they had nothing to add. In these pages historian Robert Underhill presents the most notorious criminals of 1930-1934: Wilbur Underhill, Alvin Karpis, the Barker Clan, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, the Barrows (Buck, Blanche, Clyde, and Bonnie), and John Dillinger along with supporting material on their henchmen and the rise of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628941383
• ISBN13: 9781628941388
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Length: 212 Pages