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The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation
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The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation Hardcover - 2015

by Joe Urschel

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First edition, first printing hardcover, which is in fine condition and signed and inscribed by the author. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated criminals of the Great Depression. With gin-running operations facing extinction and bank vaults with dwindling stores of cash, Kelly sets his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman, Charles Urschel. Enter J. Edgar Hoover, a desperate Justice Department bureaucrat who badly needs a successful prosecution to impress the new administration and save his job. Hoover's agents are given the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines and when Kelly bungles the snatch job, Hoover senses his big opportunity. What follows is a thrilling 20,000 mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines, and generating headlines across America along the way--a historical mystery/thriller for the ages. Joe Urschel's The Year of Fear is a thrilling true crime story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI.
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  • Title The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation
  • Author Joe Urschel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Minotaur Books, New York, Ny
  • Date 2015-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # D-315
  • ISBN 9781250020796 / 1250020794
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 1 in (24.13 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - 1933-1945, Outlaws - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015022093
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

JOE URSCHEL is the former Executive Director of the National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC, where he previously was the Executive Director of the Newseum. Urschel is also a former managing editor of USA TODAY where he served as a senior correspondent and columnist and has worked for the Detroit Free Press as a reporter, critic and editor. His journalism honors include awards from the National Association of Newspaper Columnists, the National Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and an Emmy. He lives in Virginia.