History of Heists

Bank Robbery in America

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-25
Mått:143 x 225 x 19 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538112885

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Mer om författaren

Jerry Clark, PhD, retired as a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2011 after twenty-seven years in law enforcement, including careers as a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he is also director of risk analysis and mitigation at McManis & Monsalve Associates.Ed Palattella joined the Erie Times-News, in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1990. He has won a number of awards, including for his investigative work and his coverage of crime.

Recensioner i media

Retired FBI agent Clark and veteran journalist Palattella [offer a] . . . solid survey of bank robberies in the United States, beginning in 1798 with the first one on record and spanning to the present. . . . The book serves as a useful introduction to the topic, particularly in the sections that cover the 18th and 19th centuries.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1: Breaking In: Early Banks and Early Thieves2: The Original Outlaw: Jesse James, the Civil War, and Crimes like No Other3: Robbery on the Range: The Wild West, the Wild Bunch, and the Rise of the Professional Bandit4: The G-Men Get Guns: Bank Robbery and the Birth of the Modern FBI5: Marquee Mayhem: John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and the Glamorization of the Gangster6: Lone Wolves: Willie Sutton, the Great Brink’s Robbery, and a Thief Found Dead7: Countercultural Chaos: Clean-Cut Killers, Patty Hearst, and a Dog Day Afternoon8: Striking Back, Striking Big: Boosted Bank Security and Record-Breaking Hauls9: Robbery and Reverberations: Pizza Bomber, the Post-9/11 FBI, and Online HeistsAfterword