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Title Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves : the lives and crimes of fifty American villains / edited by Lawrence Block
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
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 F. 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 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 A. 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]
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Criminals -- United States -- Biography
Biography
Criminals
SUBJECT United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
Subject United States
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Biographies
Dictionaries
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Biographies.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
Author Block, Lawrence
LC no. 2003021073
ISBN 9786610840946
6610840946
9780195169522
0195169522
OTHER TI American National Biography