Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man.—Larry McMurtryFrom 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-34218-5
- EAN: 9780393342185
- Produktnummer: 34246457
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 505 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'580 KB
- Abbildungen: 62 black-and-white illustrations
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Michael Wallis, the best-selling author of Route 66 and Billy the Kid, has published eighteen books and won numerous honors and awards. He is a popular public speaker and a highly acclaimed voice actor. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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