Author: Michael Wallis Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393338185 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 545
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Presents the life of one of America's most notorious criminals, describing "Pretty Boy" Floyd's coming of age in poverty, his descent into petty crime and bootlegging, his stormy marriage, murders, jail terms, and violent death.
Author: Larry McMurtry Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439129681 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 386
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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.
Author: Jeffery S. King Publisher: Kent State University Press ISBN: 9780873386500 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 278
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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.
Author: Marjorie Burgess Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated ISBN: 9781413779844 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 153
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Pretty Boy Floyd's autobiography, as heard by Marjorie Burgess via clairaudience in 2000 and captured on a digital voice-activated recorder.
Author: Bryan Burrough Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 110103274X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 644
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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.
Author: Maria Wheeler-Hughes Publisher: ISBN: Category : Criminals Languages : en Pages : 151
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During the period between 1932 and 1934, it is believed that Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd gained support from a large portion of the American public. This support is believed to be a result of the frequency in which articles relating to him appeared in contemporary newspaper and the subsequent sources relating to Floyd in the years after his death. This thesis intends to illustrate how the myth surrounding Floyd was shaped and driven by a narrative produced by the contemporary newspaper coverage of his exploits during his life. The popular support for Floyd was a result of these newspapers constructing an outlaw-hero myth surrounding Floyd and his actions during his life. Along with contemporary newspaper accounts of Floyd, there has also been a number of representations and interpretations through other media forms, such as music and novels, which were produced after Floyd’s death. These additional media examples show how the outlaw-hero myth, constructed during Floyd’s life, continued relatively unchanged after Floyd’s death. In order to showcase what about the contemporary newspaper accounts, and the subsequent sources, facilitated the myth of Floyd as an outlaw-hero, the ideas presented by folklorist Richard Meyer in his definition and construction of an outlawhero has been called upon. Using Meyer’s twelve elements this thesis has analysed both contemporary newspapers such as the New York Times, The Washington Post and the East Liverpool Review, as well as cultural sources such and Woody Guthrie’s ballad, Pretty Boy Floyd, the novel The Grapes of Wrath and Pretty Boy Floyd a novel. This thesis identifies how the narrative constructed around Floyd’s life and his actions became that of an outlaw-hero, both in life and death.
Author: Robert Unger Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN: 9780836227734 Category : Kansas City (Mo.) Languages : en Pages : 0
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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
Author: Elmore Leonard Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006182786X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 399
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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.
Author: Michael Wallis
Author: Larry McMurtry
Author: Jeffery S. King
Author: Sue L. Hamilton
Author: Marjorie Burgess
Author: Bryan Burrough
Author: Maria Wheeler-Hughes
Author: Robert Unger
Author: Larry McMurtry
Author: Elmore Leonard