I Am A Fugitive From A Georgia Chain Gang

Author : Robert E. Burns
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343013
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

Author : Robert E. Burns
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820319430
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert E. Burns and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is the amazing true story of one man's search for meaning, fall from grace, and eventual victory over injustice. In 1921, Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia's barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years' hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia's brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

Author : Robert Elliot Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert Elliot Burns and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, first published in 1932, is the dramatic firsthand account of Robert Burns and his struggle to live a normal life following a single disastrous choice he had made as a young man. The story begins with the end of World War I and the return of veteran Burns to the U.S. In 1921, Burns, out of hunger and desperation, took part in a grocery store robbery with two other men. The men were captured, and Burns was sentenced to 6-10 years' hard labor in a Georgia prison. The robbery had netted the men less than $6.00. Burns, shackled as part of a chain gang, successfully escaped after four months and made his way to Chicago, where he married, started a magazine and lived as a free man for 7 years. For a second time, however, he was arrested as a fugitive from justice after Burns became involved with another woman and was turned in to authorities by his wife. Burns was returned to Georgia, and again placed on a chain gang. Incredibly, Burns managed to escape a second time and traveled to New Jersey. At the time of the book's publication in 1932 (followed by a movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933), he was still a fugitive from the law. Included in this new Nighthawk Book edition is an Epilogue detailing Burns' eventual fate and an copy of an illustrated True Detective Mysteries article featuring Burns' story.

Author : Robert Elliott Burns
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789128803
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! written by Robert Elliott Burns and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chain Gang Fugitive, first published in 1932 as I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!, is the dramatic firsthand account of Robert Burns and his struggle to live a normal life following a single disastrous choice he had made as a young man. T Robert E. Burns was a shell-shocked and penniless veteran who found himself at the mercy of Georgia’s barbaric penal system when he fell in with a gang of petty thieves. Sentenced to six to ten years’ hard labor for his part in a robbery that netted less than $6.00, Burns was shackled to a county chain gang. After four months of backbreaking work, he made a daring escape, dodging shotgun blasts, racing through swamps, and eluding bloodhounds on his way north. For seven years Burns lived as a free man. He married and became a prosperous Chicago businessman and publisher. When he fell in love with another woman, however, his jealous wife turned him in to the police, who arrested him as a fugitive from justice. Although he was promised lenient treatment and a quick pardon, he was back on a chain gang within a month. Undaunted, Burns did the impossible and escaped a second time, this time to New Jersey. He was still a hunted man living in hiding when this book was first published in 1932. The book and its movie version, nominated for a Best Picture Oscar in 1933, shocked the world by exposing Georgia’s brutal treatment of prisoners. I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! is a daring and heartbreaking book, an odyssey of misfortune, love, betrayal, adventure, and, above all, the unshakable courage and inner strength of the fugitive himself.

Author : Robert E. Burns
Publisher : Quid Pro, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781610273770
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A GEORGIA written by Robert E. Burns and published by Quid Pro, LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the harrowing, inspirational story of Robert E. Burns' imprisonment on a chain gang in the 1920s, his daring escape (twice, no less!), and the public furor that developed. The book became a famous movie, sparking outrage about prison conditions and involuntary servitude leading to major reforms. It is simply a very interesting read

Author : Scott Allen Nollen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786466774
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang written by Scott Allen Nollen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1922. Twice escaping and on the lam for decades, he was aided only by his minister-poet brother, Vincent G. Burns. Their collaborative work, I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! was the basis for Darryl F. Zanuck's and Mervyn Leroy's hard-hitting 1932 film adaptation from Warner Bros. This book traces the making and influence of the film--which launched a string of imitators--and the Burns brothers' efforts to obtain a pardon for Robert, which never came.

Author : Howard J. Green
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299087548
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang written by Howard J. Green and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its release in 1932, I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang had earned a reputation as one of the few Hollywood products that can be associated directly with social change. Film historians attribute the reform of the southern chain gang system to the public outrage generated by this movie, which depicts a true story. In addition to being an important social document, the film remains a gripping experience for filmgoers today because of its unusual dramatic conception, its hauntingly inconclusive ending, and Paul Muni's performance as the good boy forced to go wrong. This book includes the complete screenplay.

Author : Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slave Life in Georgia written by Brown and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Louis Spivak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia Nigger written by John Louis Spivak and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thinly fictionalized condemnation of Georgia's penal system that unveiled the harsh working conditions and brutal treatment suffered by African Americans in the state's convict camps.

Author : Jerry Clark
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442262591
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Lam written by Jerry Clark and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fugitives occupy a unique place in the American criminal justice system. They can run and they can hide, but eventually each chase ends. And, in many cases, history is made along the way. John Dillinger’s capture obsessed J. Edgar Hoover and helped create the modern FBI. Violent student radicals who went on the lam in the 1960s reflected the turbulence of the era. The sixteen-year disappearance and sudden arrest of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in 2011 captivated the nation. Fugitives have become iconic characters in American culture even as they have threatened public safety and the smooth operation of the justice system. They are always on the run, always trying to stay out of reach of the long arm of the law. Also prominent are the men and women who chase fugitives: FBI agents, federal marshals and their deputies, police officers, and bounty hunters. A significant element of the justice system is dedicated to finding those on the run, and the most-wanted posters and true-crime television shows have made fugitives seemingly ubiquitous figures of fear and fascination for the public. In On the Lam, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella trace the history of fugitives in the United States by looking at the characters – real and fictional – who have played the roles of the hunter and the hunted. They also examine the origins of the bail system and other legal tools, such as most-wanted programs, that are designed to guard against flight.