Blessed Are The Bank Robbers

Author : Chas Smith
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647005469
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blessed Are the Bank Robbers written by Chas Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking true story of Bibles and bank robberies in Southern California, from a talented and highly praised gonzo journalist Chas Smith grew up deeply enmeshed in the evangelical Christian world that grew out of Southern California in the late 1960s. His family included famous missionaries and megachurch pastors, but his cousin Daniel Courson was Grandma’s favorite. Smith looked up to Cousin Danny. He was handsome, adventurous, and smart, earned a degree from Bible college, and settled into a family and a stable career. Needless to say, it was a big surprise when Cousin Danny started robbing banks. Known as the “Floppy Hat Bandit,” Courson robbed 19 of them in a torrid six-week spree before being caught and sentenced to seven years. When he tried to escape, they tacked on another year. And when he finally got out, despite seeming to be back on the straight and narrow, Cousin Danny disappeared. Banks started getting robbed again. It seemed Cousin Danny might be gunning for the record. Smith’s Blessed Are the Bank Robbers is the wild, and wildly entertaining, story of an all-American anti-hero. It’s a tale of bank robberies, art and jewel heists, high-speed chases, fake identities, encrypted Swiss email accounts, jilted lovers, and the dark side of an evangelical family (and it wasn’t just Danny; an uncle was mixed up with the mujahideen). It’s a book about what it means to live inside the church and outside the law.

Author : J. North Conway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762766808
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King of Heists written by J. North Conway and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King of Heists is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities—around $50 million in today's terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie—a society architect and ladies' man whose double life as the nation's most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the “King of the Bank Robbers.” The New York Times proclaimed the 1878 heist “the most sensational in the history of bank robberies in this country.” An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, King of Heists blends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction.

Author : Willie Sutton
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767918134
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Money Was written by Willie Sutton and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-03-23 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadway Books Library of Larceny Luc Sante, General Editor For more than fifty years, Willie Sutton devoted his boundless energy and undoubted genius exclusively to two activities at which he became better than any man in history: breaking in and breaking out. The targets in the first instance were banks and in the second, prisons. Unarguably America’s most famous bank robber, Willie never injured a soul, but took on almost a hundred banks and departed three of America’s most escape-proof penitentiaries. This is the stuff of myth—rascally and cautionary by turns—yet true in every searing, diverting, and brilliantly recalled detail.

Author : Judith A. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645760
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Put the Money in My Purse! written by Judith A. Yates and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, this book recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the United States, from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers "literally robbing for Pampers" are narrated as part of the social history of women in America.

Author : Beverly Smith
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644241129
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silver City Bank Robbery written by Beverly Smith and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting out on a journey westward with a small wagon train, George Wright uprooted his family from a dirt-poor farm in Ohio. He wasn't searching for gold or silver like others were; he had a dream of making a better life for his family. Despite the death of his wife during childbirth while on the trip, his dream never swayed, and he was determined to see it through, come hell or high water. George finally settled in a place outside of Silver City, Nevada. With blood, sweat, and tears, he managed to build a solid house for his children. Within a few years, he also had built up a working ranch despite animal attacks, Indian scares, and some unsavory characters. Then he discovered timber and found that it was quite a prosperous business. This business made him a rich man, so he had to go into Silver City more often. While there, he would always stop in at Millie's Café but not just for the good food. He favored one waitress in particular by the name of Joella Carson. Later on he would become her saving grace, but a future was uncertain when faced with two bank robbers.

Author : C. Clark Criscuolo
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312117507
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bank Robbers written by C. Clark Criscuolo and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dottie West has a medical condition that Medicaid won't cover. What's a woman in need of some ready cash to do? Teresa Newhouse is a widow who's kids are tyring to con her into moving to Florida. What's a beleaguered widow to do? Arthur MacGregor works for his son and reports to a parole officer half his age. What's a reformed, bored-to-death thief to do? What they do is get reaquainted after 30 years to plan a caper that will spice up their golden years and let them live the good live once again. Martin's Press.

Author : Rod Beemer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626198357
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notorious Kansas Bank Heists: Gunslingers to Gangsters written by Rod Beemer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bank robbers wreaked havoc in the Sunflower Scale. After robbing the Chautauqua State Bank in 1911, outlaw Elmer McCurdy was killed by lawmen but wasn't buried for sixty-six years. His afterlife can be described only as bizarre. Belle Starr's nephew Henry Starr claimed to have robbed twenty-one banks. The Dalton gang failed in their attempt to rob two banks simultaneously, but others accomplished this in Waterville in 1911. Nearly four thousand known vigilantes patrolled the Sunflower State during the 1920s and 1930s to combat the criminal menace. One group even had an airplane with a 50-caliber machine gun. Join author Rod Beemer for a wild ride into Kansas's tumultuous bank heist history. Book jacket.

Author : Debra Weyermann
Publisher : Poseidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780671731311
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gang They Couldn't Catch written by Debra Weyermann and published by Poseidon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the largest bank robbery in United States history, and describes how questionable tactics used by the FBI led to the acquittal of their main suspects

Author : John Kiggia Kimani
Publisher : East African Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789966463760
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Times of a Bank Robber written by John Kiggia Kimani and published by East African Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442235462
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Heists written by Jerry Clark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No crime is as synonymous with America as bank robbery. Though the number of bank robberies nationwide has declined, bank robbery continues to captivate the public and jeopardize the safety of banks and their employees. In A History of Heists, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella explore how bank robbers have influenced American culture as much as they have reflected it. Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, Willie Sutton, and Patty Hearst are among the most famous figures in the history of crime in the United States. Jesse James used his training as a Confederate guerrilla to make bank robbery a political act. John Dillinger capitalized on the public’s scorn of banks during the Great Depression and became America’s first Public Enemy Number One. When she held up a bank with the leftist Symbionese Liberation Army, Patty Hearst fueled the country’s social unrest. Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella delve into the backgrounds and motivations of the robbers, and explore how they are as complex as the nation whose banks they have plundered. But as much as the story of bank robbery in America focuses on the thieves, it is also a story of those who investigate the heists. As bank robbers became more sophisticated, so did the police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other law enforcement agencies. This captivating history showshow bank robbery shaped the modern FBI, and how it continues to cultivate America’s fascination with the noble outlaw: bandits seen, rightly or wrongly, as battling unjust authority.