A review by pearl35
Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One by Elliott J. Gorn

3.0

Deconstructs the early 1930s social context of depression, rural foreclosures, prohibition, generational clashes, class warfare and media advances that made possible the large-scale romanticization of the Dillinger Gang, as well as the public relations counter-offensive managed by Hoover and Purvis. Like Bonnie and Clyde, the details of their exploits are hardly glamorous--most of the gang used the money from their first haul to go get dental work.