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Title: John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936 by Paul Maccabee ISBN: 0-87351-316-9 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: It's a Crime that this book gets great reviews
Comment: The book is a snoozer. Makes me wonder if the author got carried away with his parasitical attachment to the characters he embellished upon enough to blackmail the above reviewers. Really, don't bother.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cops & Robbers
Comment: The cops and robbers game was played differently in St. Paul in the '20's and '30's than in most American cities. That's because in St. Paul organized crime was largely controlled by the Police Department. Consequently, it became the headquarters for fugitive gangs who found refuge there until Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and the Barker-Karpis gang brought federal heat to the Twin Cities in 1934. The story of the "public enemies" who found sanctuary through local mobsters and police contacts in St. Paul is told in full glorious detail here for the first time, thanks to author Paul Maccabee's great research and his battle for the release of long buried FBI files. It's a must read for all gangster buffs.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Devastatingly Good Read
Comment: What the lengthy reviews don't really touch upon is the writing style of the author. Maccabee is has a great touch -- light, breezy and able to turn deadly serious without a wisp of melodrama. The book is organized in short snippets, little windows into the world of the times. It is tempting to grab the book and just read one of the snippets. Good luck. I've been late to work, appointments, dinner, etc, too many times because I've gotten sucked in to "just reading one more". Certainly, it's tantalizing to know the places Maccabee describes firsthand as a St. Paul resident (imagine my surprise when I found that my office was once home to a huge underworld betting parlor!) I would guess that Maccabee's storytelling insticts would enthrall people from any geographic location.
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Title: Gangsters and Outlaws of the 1930's: Landmarks of the Public Enemy Era by Richard Owen, James Owen ISBN: 1572492759 Publisher: White Mane Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang by Ellen Poulsen ISBN: 0971720002 Publisher: Clinton Cook Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Dillinger Days by John Toland ISBN: 0306806266 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy by Steven Nickel, William J. Helmer ISBN: 1581822723 Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: John Dillinger: The Life and Death of America's First Celebrity Criminal by Dary Matera ISBN: 0786713542 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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