![]() ![]() Though they were captured in January 1934, Dillinger managed to escape jail by-legend has it-carving a fake gun out of wood and brandishing it at the guards. In the process, more than a dozen policemen, civilians, and gang members were killed, and reporters followed the gang’s exploits every step of the way. ![]() The author focuses on a one-year period in 1933 and ’34, when Dillinger and his gang robbed more than a dozen banks across the country. Gorn specifically addresses the phenomenon of Dillinger’s glamorous image and searches for an explanation of American society’s enduring fascination with outlaws. He has been the subject of popular fiction and nonfiction for years, as well as numerous films, including the upcoming Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp as Dillinger. ![]() Since his death at the hands of federal agents on July 22, 1934, that legend has only grown. ![]() Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, 2001, etc.) demonstrates that the American popular imagination never seems to tire of Dillinger and his legend. With this new biography of the Depression-era bank robber, Gorn (History/Brown Univ. One year in the life of legendary criminal John Dillinger. ![]()
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