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Summary: My Fave Book as A Kid
Review: Who cares if the book is histrionic and innacurate? It has excellent pictures and juciy crime tidbits like the depraved housewife who branded "I AM A PROSTITUE AND PROUD" with a hot needle on the belly of the young girl left in her charge (while the girl's parents travelled with the circus, no less). You also get stagecoach robbers, confidence men, joy killers and petty thieves all descibed in a feverish, tabloid tone. Gotta love it! The book definitely influenced my tender, young sensibilities and helped develop my life-long fascination with crime and the American prison industrial complex. This should be in every American pre-teen's bookshelf!
Rating:
Summary: My Fave Book as A Kid
Review: Who cares if the book is histrionic and innacurate? It has excellent pictures and juciy crime tidbits like the depraved housewife who branded "I AM A PROSTITUE AND PROUD" with a hot needle on the belly of the young girl left in her charge (while the girl's parents travelled with the circus, no less). You also get stagecoach robbers, confidence men, joy killers and petty thieves all descibed in a feverish, tabloid tone. Gotta love it! The book definitely influenced my tender, young sensibilities and helped develop my life-long fascination with crime and the American prison industrial complex. This should be in every American pre-teen's bookshelf!
Rating:
Summary: My Fave Book as A Kid
Review: Who cares if the book is histrionic and innacurate? It has excellent pictures and juciy crime tidbits like the depraved housewife who branded "I AM A PROSTITUE AND PROUD" with a hot needle on the belly of the young girl left in her charge (while the girl's parents travelled with the circus, no less). You also get stagecoach robbers, confidence men, joy killers and petty thieves all descibed in a feverish, tabloid tone. Gotta love it! The book definitely influenced my tender, young sensibilities and helped develop my life-long fascination with crime and the American prison industrial complex. This should be in every American pre-teen's bookshelf!
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