Name: Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
ISBN: 9780393338188

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Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

Michael Wallis

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From 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 an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2011
Pages: 544
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.50in - 1.10in - 0.90lb
EAN: 9780393338188
Categories: • Criminals & Outlaws

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About the Author

Wallis, Michael: - Michael Wallis, author of The Best Land Under Heaven and the best-selling Route 66 and Billy the Kid, has published nineteen books and won numerous awards and honors. He is a popular public speaker and voice actor and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.