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  • The Dillinger Days

  • By: John Toland
  • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
  • Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (91 ratings)

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The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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Summary

For 13 violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger's daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge, along with his countless bank robberies, excited the imagination of a despondent country. He eluded the lawmen of a half-dozen states and the growing power of the FBI, earning him the dubious honor of Public Enemy Number One and captivating Americans to the present day. His brief but significant career is vividly chronicled here in extraordinary detail, as is the entire outlaw era of Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, and Machine Gun Kelly. John Toland conducted hundreds of interviews; his research took him through 34states, into the cells where Dillinger was confined, and into every bank he robbed.

The Dillinger Days is the inside account of a desperate and determined war between the law and the lawless, a struggle that did not end until a unique set of circumstances led to Dillinger's bloody death outside a Chicago movie house.

©2017 John Toland (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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good listen I've listened to it twice like the narrator as well love john dillinger

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Very Entertaining

I love these type of books about the old times and what it must have been like when Dillinger was the most dangerous man in the USA, overall not a bad listen.

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Tedious

I’m halfway through this and desperate for it to finish. It’s written in a tedious and uninteresting way and the narrator they chose to read it is equally boring. His monotonous drawl is, however, quite good for sending me to sleep.

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factual discrepancies

book was great untill! we got to clyde and bonnie Parker pure horse crap to have such disinformation means to me a lack of research there for the rest of the book is unreliable making it pointless in listening to or reading

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