John Dillinger

"During the 1930s, United States citizens made bank robber John Dillinger and many of his crew their anti-heroes or heroes. These good-looking, sharply-dressed, gentlemen bandits robbed banks, somethimes burning mortgage documents to save townspeople from losing their homes. During a time of abject poverty, when the government was seen as the enemy who could not understand the average citizen's plight, the Dillinger Gang became superstars, eventually to be paid homage in film in nearly every decade since"--Back cover.