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Title	:	Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
Author	:	Elliott J. Gorn
Book Format	:	ebook
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 289 pages
Published	:	May 14th 2014 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Biography. Crime. True Crime. History. North American Hi.... American History

Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One

Elliott J. Gorn

ebook | Pages: 289 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 216 Users | 21 Reviews

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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 and violence, 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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Original Title:	Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One
ISBN:	0199719489 (ISBN13: 9780199719488)

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Interesting but Towards the end just got too be much. Last chapter was too much

This was a blast to read. Gorn clearly admires Dillinger but I can't say I blame him. Does a beautiful job relating Dillinger's life to the sweeping cultural change of the times--which have a STRIKING relevance to today. Enjoy!

There's this little police booth downtown where I live in Goshen, Indiana. It was built 4 years after Dillinger was killed, but it's got his name all over it.Dillenger never hit Goshen - when I first moved to Goshen, there were two banks adjacent to the police booth, so I'm guessing there was something there during Dillinger's reign. And he hit South Bend to the north of us, and Warsaw to the south of us. Who knows?I'm a new Hoosier, though. So, I'm not as up with all things Dillinger. The guy

John Dillinger has become such a mythic, even romantic figure, that much of the facts of his life of crime have been lost to time. Much like Jesse James, he is more legend than man. Elliott Gorn details Dillinger's exploits, finding the real man behind the myth. In a nation beaten down by the Great Depression, his string of robberies and jailbreaks gave people some vicarious excitement while also sticking it to the banks so many of them hated. Moving from misfit to criminal, John Dillinger finds

I loved this book! It was a fascinating read about the notorious gangster. I learned a lot about John Dillinger and the people he was surrounded by. Fortunately, I was able to meet Mr. Gorn who is just as interesting as his book.

This book was heavily researched and footnoted- interupted flow of the book- difficult to get through