[PDF] Charles Pretty Boy Floyd eBook

Author : Michael Wallis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393338185

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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 : Jeffery S. King
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873386500

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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 : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439129681

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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 : Sue L. Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO & Daughters
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780939179633

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An account of the bank robberies and killings by "Pretty Boy" Floyd and his death by FBI agents.

Author : Marjorie Burgess
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781413779844

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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
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 110103274X

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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 :
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Criminals
ISBN :

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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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Kansas City (Mo.)
ISBN : 9780836227734

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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 : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Pocket Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780671891671

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A country boy took a big step towards becoming a legend when he robs his first armored car.