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

2.0

As someone with a large interest in criminal history and "stars" of the underworld, this book was difficult for me to enjoy and get through. Very well researched and footnoted, however as a book it is extremely boring. On top of this the author has a borderline obsession with what the newspaper headlines said about a given situation. These headlines and discussion of said headlines make up roughly 60% of the book, and the descriptions of the events and/or continuing saga is constantly and painfully disrupted with them. Personally I bought the book to read about his saga and the events, not to read part of the event and then spend 3 pages hearing about what the New York Times thought about it or what this little paper thought about it, I frankly don't care.

By pg 30 I had grown tired of that game and so whenever a newspaper would come up I would skim until I saw that discussion was over. This saved me from wasting my time reading roughly 100 pgs of it.