Criminals and Folk Heroes

During the Great Depression, writers of True Crime could take the decade off: life was imitating art so dramatically they had nothing to add. In these pages historian Robert Underhill presents the most notorious criminals of 1930-1934. The same author who brought us Against the Grain: Six Men Who Shaped America and The Rise and Fall of Franklin D. Roosevelt shows us another aspect of the Roosevelt era and portrays a series of figures who contributed to pop culture as well helping to shape the se