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The Dillinger Days
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
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Publisher's 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.
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- Jimmy Oneal
- 03-09-20
Must have been written by Hoover
The book minimized Melvin Purvis role completely In addition it states that the FBI was responsible for setting up Bonnie and Clyde yet wasn't there The book treated Frank Hamer as an afterthought
Not very truthful
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-10-19
Poorly researched
Author apparently watched movie version of Bonnie and Clyde for all his information on the subject. Makes me question the veracity of the rest of the book. Grover Gardner is the only positive.
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- D. Lichtenstein
- 10-04-18
Interesting
Although an interesting and entertaining listen, it's hard to overlook the factual inaccuracies, mostly regarding Bonnie and Clyde. This fact leaves me wondering how many other portions are also inaccurate.
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- Doug Weaver
- 04-10-21
although the narrator did a good job, the accuracy
although the narrator was good, the accuracy of events were non existent. I only finished it because I had to see what other non truths could be told.
I recommend that the author do real research before his next writings.
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- Azul
- 14-12-17
So far, highly questionable scholarship
Having just finished Jeff Guinn's exhaustively researched book on Bonnie and Clyde, I was disappounted as well as concerned to find that Toland merely spewed forth the most cursory scurrilous and disproved information about them. Straight out of the mouths of period news hacks, completely irresponsible sensationalistic journalism regurgitated as fact. It makes me question the veracity of everything else Toland writes. I am returning this rather than waste my time on false accounts.
Mr. Gardner's reading is of the usual excellent quality.
6 people found this helpful
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- Brian
- 07-05-22
Great Book
this book covers not only John Dillinger but also other figures of the time and how they influences each other and the development of the FBI.
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- Cody Cook
- 21-12-21
overall a pretty straightforward account.
while I loved the book overall, the fact that the narrator felt the need to say coopay instead of coupe drove me absolutely crazy.
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- SOME1 else
- 16-12-21
A Wild Ride and then some
Published in 1963, John Toland‘s exhaustive study of America’s Public Enemy No.1, his crimes, the times, and tolls the Midwest Crime Wave took on its participants, remains, nearly sixty years on, fascinating biographical drama, deserving no less than a reading by that greatest of narrators, Grover Gardener.
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- Wendy
- 02-09-21
informative and intriguing
research really seemed to be done and I loved the voice choice for the story
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- Mark C.
- 02-05-21
A Little Known Gem
The master narrates another master. Subject covers all the major criminals of the 30’s. Toland was such a great writer. I enjoyed every word.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-08-19
john dillinger
good listen I've listened to it twice like the narrator as well love john dillinger
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- Anonymous User
- 06-05-22
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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- Anonymous User
- 04-05-22
you can't beat Grover Gardner
Grover Gardner is brilliant. One of the best story's from the great debresion years. I loved every minute of it. thank you very much.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-03-22
far more thorough than prior versions ,well read a
good insight to Americana specifically the portrayal of national guard, returned vets, vigilantism, give a mid west American a chance to use a gun and ( whoopee). Dillinger and co may be callous but J Edgar Hoover is historically and factually histories REAL VILLIAN. Each to their own but when hypocrisy abounds, especially adapted to American Christianity. I love all as long as they think and act like me.