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Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves : the lives and crimes of fifty American villains
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Presents a gallery of fifty of America's most notorious criminals, from colonial times through the twentieth century, with profiles of such outlaws as John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Bonnie Parker,...
Presents a gallery of fifty of America's most notorious criminals, from colonial times through the twentieth century, with profiles of such outlaws as John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Bonnie Parker, and Ted Bund.
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- Creator
- edited by Lawrence Block
- Included Title
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- American National Biography
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 287 p. ) ill.
- ISBNs
- 9781280840944, 019976994X, 0195169522, 1280840943, 9780195169522, 9780199769940
- OCLC
- ocm53325311, on1027172360
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index.
- English
- Thomas Beer [1888?-1940] -- Billy the Kid [1859-1881] -- Black Bart [fl. 1875-1888] -- John Wilkes Booth [1838-1865] -- Ted Bundy [1946-1989] -- Al Capone [1899-1947] -- Frankie Carbo [1904-1976] -- Butch Cassidy [1866-1908? or 1937?] -- Mickey Cohen [1913-1976] -- Joseph Anthony Colombo, Sr. [1923-1978] -- Frank Costello [1891-1973] -- Leon Czolgosz [1873-1901] -- Bob Dalton [1869-1892] -- John F. Deitz [1861-1924] -- John Dillinger [1903-1934] -- William Doolin [1858-1896] -- Charles Arthur Floyd [1904-1934] -- Carlo Gambino [1902-1976] -- Edward Gein [1906-1984] -- Vito Genovese [1897-1969] -- Charles Julius Guiteau [1841-1882] -- John Wesley Hardin [1853-1895] -- Tom Horn [1860-1903] -- Jesse James [1847-1882] -- Machine Gun Kelly [1895-1954] -- Meyer Lansky [1902-1983] -- Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. [1904-1971] and Richard Albert Loeb [1905-1936] -- Lucky Luciano [1897-1962] -- Ebenezer Mackintosh [1737-1816] -- Owen Victor Madden [1891-1965] -- Samuel Mason [1750-1803] -- Gaston Bullock Means [1879-1938] -- John Andrews Murrell [1806?-1844] -- Philip Mariano Fausto Musica [1884-1938] -- Bonnie Parker [1910-1934] and Clyde Chestnut Barrow [1909-1934] -- William Clarke Quantrill [1837-1865] -- Railroad Bill [?-1896] -- Stephen S. Renfroe [1843-1886] -- Arnold Rothstein [1882-1928] -- Dutch Schultz [1902-1935] -- Bugsy Siegel [1906-1947] -- Joseph Alfred Slade [1829 or 1830-1864] -- Belle Starr [1848-1889] -- Willie Sutton [1901-1980] -- Harry Kendall Thaw [1871-1947] -- Joseph Valachi [1904-1971] -- Tiburcio Vasquez [1835-1875] -- John White Webster [1793-1850] -- Seth Wyman [1784-1843] -- Cole Younger [1844-1916]