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Pretty Boy Floyd

Larry McMurtry,Diana Ossana
Pretty Boy Floyd Book PDF

Author : Larry McMurtry,Diana Ossana
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439129685

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Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry,Diana Ossana Pdf

The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car. Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of the legendary American folk hero Charley Floyd, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

Michael Wallis
Pretty Boy The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd Book PDF

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393342185

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Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd by Michael Wallis Pdf

"This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.

Public Enemy Number One, "Pretty Boy" Floyd

Sue L. Hamilton
Public Enemy Number One Pretty Boy Floyd Book PDF

Author : Sue L. Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO & Daughters
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0939179636

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Public Enemy Number One, "Pretty Boy" Floyd by Sue L. Hamilton Pdf

An account of the bank robberies and killings by "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his death by FBI agents.

Pretty Boy

Bill Brooks
Pretty Boy Book PDF

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645408062

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Pretty Boy by Bill Brooks Pdf

THE EPIC LIFE OF PRETTY BOY FLOYD Charles Pretty Boy Floyd became the FBI's most wanted man in America. A depression era young man out of the Oklahoma Hill country decided he no longer wanted to work as a field hand and common laborer. Everywhere in the Dirty 30s, men, and in one case, women (Bonnie Parker) had decided to use a gun to get what they wanted, and so did Charley. His first real job was that of robbing the Kroger Company Payroll Office where one of the women there described him as being "Just a mere boy—a pretty boy." The name stuck and from then on that is what the newspapers called him. His good looks didn't hurt with the ladies either and he ended up with both a wife and girlfriend clear up to the time of his death. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a personal vendetta against what he considered the scourge of the land and set his main Agent, Melvin Purvis to take down the most notorious of them, beginning with Johnny Dillinger who was ambushed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, thus moving Pretty Boy to the top of the list.

Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd

Jeffery S. King
Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd Book PDF

Author : Jeffery S. King
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873386507

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Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd by Jeffery S. King Pdf

Charles Arthur Floyd, aka Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934), was one of the last so-called Robin Hood outlaws. He engaged in numerous bank-robbing exploits across the Midwest until federal agents and local police shot him down near East Liverpool, Ohio, on October 22, 1934. This detailed account of his life, crimes and death makes extensive use of FBI reports, government records, local newspapers and contemporary journalistic accounts.

Carl Janaway - Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills

Gary D. Courtney
Carl Janaway Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills Book PDF

Author : Gary D. Courtney
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425995881

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Carl Janaway - Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills by Gary D. Courtney Pdf

Carl Janaway - The Smartest Bandit of the Cookson Hills Last Surviving Bank Robber of the 1930's, Builder of getaway cars for "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Nursemaid to Al Capone in Alcatraz Prison. by Gary D. Courtney The life, times, and character of one of the most elusive gangsters of the 1930's era, who survived by going straight after prison and becoming an upstanding citizen. Based upon the author's month-long museum exhibit of Carl Janaway's possessions and story, which filled the John Vaughn Library lobby at Northeastern State University. Famous Sheriff Grover Bishop, who killed more men (17) than Wyatt Earp, chased Carl Janaway over 3,000 miles, and couldn't catch him. Carl's wife was also a bank robber, called the "Blonde Bandit", of rough and rowdy Vian, Oklahoma. Janaway spent time in Alcatraz Prison with some of the deadliest gangsters of the time.

Public Enemies

Bryan Burrough
Public Enemies Book PDF

Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101032749

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Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough Pdf

In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.

The Hot Kid

Elmore Leonard
The Hot Kid Book PDF

Author : Elmore Leonard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061827860

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The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard Pdf

The undisputed master of the crime novel strikes again with this powerfully entertaining story, set in 1920s Oklahoma, that introduces one of the toughest lawmen ever to come out of the west. . . . Carlos Webster was 15 the day he witnessed his first murder—but it wouldn’t be his last. It was also his first introduction to the notorious gunman, Emmet Long. By the time Carlos is 20, he’s being sworn in as a deputy United States marshal and now goes by the name Carl. As for Emmet, he’s robbing banks with his new partner, the no-good son of an oil millionaire. Carl Webster and Emmet Long may be on opposite sides of the law but their long-time game of cat and mouse will turn them both into two of the most famous names in crime and punishment.

The Big Book of Hair Metal

Martin Popoff
The Big Book of Hair Metal Book PDF

Author : Martin Popoff
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780760345467

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The Big Book of Hair Metal by Martin Popoff Pdf

"An oral history and timeline of the popular 1980s heavy metal subgenre, including its prehistory and decline, profusely illustrated with relevant photographs and memorabilia"--

The Vendetta

Alston Purvis
The Vendetta Book PDF

Author : Alston Purvis
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786746668

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The Vendetta by Alston Purvis Pdf

In The Vendetta, author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression—John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Purvis’s successes led FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover to grow increasingly jealous, to the point where he vowed to bring down Purvis. Hoover smeared Purvis’s reputation, and tried to erase his name from all records of the FBI's greatest triumphs. This book sets the record straight, and provides a grippingly authentic new telling of the gangster era, seen from the perspective of the pursuers.

Killing the Mob

Bill O'Reilly,Martin Dugard
Killing the Mob Book PDF

Author : Bill O'Reilly,Martin Dugard
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250273666

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Killing the Mob by Bill O'Reilly,Martin Dugard Pdf

Instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob. Killing the Mob is the tenth book in Bill O'Reilly's #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the “Five Families,” the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. O’Reilly and Dugard turn these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel. With Killing the Mob, their hit series is primed for its greatest success yet.

Pretty Boy Floyd

Larry McMurtry
Pretty Boy Floyd Book PDF

Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1417718382

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Pretty Boy Floyd by Larry McMurtry Pdf

It's 1925 in St. Louis. Charlie Floyd, a sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car. This richly comic masterpiece and American tragedy about the price of fame and corruption of innocence traces the wild career of the legendary folk hero, a man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even if he's robbing you.

The Union Station Massacre

Robert Unger
The Union Station Massacre Book PDF

Author : Robert Unger
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Kansas City (Mo.)
ISBN : 0836227735

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The Union Station Massacre by Robert Unger Pdf

Using the original eighty-nine volumes of FBI case file, journalist/scholar Unger reveals what really happened on that June day in 1933. He describes how the FBI turned the massacre case into a witch hunt for "Pretty Boy" Floyd and Adam Richetti, both of whom paid with their lives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

China Wakes

Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn
China Wakes Book PDF

Author : Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307764232

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China Wakes by Nicholas D. Kristof,Sheryl WuDunn Pdf

The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower, and an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China from the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and bestselling authors of Half a Sky. "Nick Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's work as correspondents in China was beyond compare, and now they have written a book every bit as astonishing. China Wakes is filled with anecdote, detail, and analysis of the highest order.... This book demands reading, and yet it is a pleasure as well as an education." —David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker Featuring 16 pages of photos

Pretty Boy

Bill Brooks
Pretty Boy Book PDF

Author : Bill Brooks
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0765343959

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Pretty Boy by Bill Brooks Pdf

"As I lay dying, I see Daddy Walter sitting on the porch reading a Bible sold to him by a man wearing spats." Thus begins the novel of Charles Arthur Floyd, best known to depression-era America as Pretty Boy Floyd. "I was the dreamer, the seeker of all things beyond my reach, the dandy, the dancer, the lover of countless woman, the bank robber, the husband, the father, the son, the brother. I was the most wanted man in America." Rising out of the harvests and oil fields of the Oklahoma dustbowl that John Steinbeck so poignantly captured in The Grapes of Wrath, Pretty Boy Floyd became the most wanted man in America by the newly formed FBI-and the woman who loved him. And while Bonnie and Clyde were tearing up the country, robbing and shooting their way across the Southwest-Charley knew them both, cared for neither-Charley was robbing banks from Kansas City to Ohio. The local newspapers were full of stories about guys like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, and Al Capone, but none of them had what Pretty Boy had: uncommon good luck, a taste for fancy clothes, fancy cars, and beautiful dames. From the opening pages to the final chapter, we hear Charley and his pals, his lovers, and his family tell us the story of Pretty Boy Floyd. Writing with the same combination of lyricism and earthy prose that he used to create the western classic, The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid, Bill Brooks plays the medium for Pretty Boy, his partners, lovers, and his enemies.