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Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves : the lives and crimes of fifty American villains / edited by Lawrence Block.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--United States--Biography.
- Criminals.
- United States--Biography--Dictionaries.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 287 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2004]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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].
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-976994-X
- 1-280-84094-3
- OCLC:
- 1027172360
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