One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is the story of Fults's experiences in the Texas criminal underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and the gripping account of his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly its notorious duo, Bonnie and Clyde. Fults's ten ...
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One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is the story of Fults's experiences in the Texas criminal underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and the gripping account of his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly its notorious duo, Bonnie and Clyde. Fults's ten fast years were both dramatic and violent. As an adolescent he escaped numerous juvenile institutions and jails, was shot by an Oklahoma police officer, and was brutalized by prison guards. With Clyde, following their fateful meeting in 1930, he robbed a bank to finance a prison raid. After the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, in 1934, he joined forces with Raymond Hamilton; together the two robbed more banks and eluded countless posses before Hamilton's capture and 1935 execution. One of the few survivors among numerous associates who ended up shot, stabbed, beaten to death, or executed, Fults was later able to reform himself, believing that the only reason he was spared was to reveal the darkest aspects of his past-and in so doing expose the circumstances that propel youth into crime. Author John Neal Phillips tells Fults's story in vivid and at times raw detail, recounting bank robberies, killings, and prison escapes, friendships, love affairs, and marriages. Dialogues based on actual conversations amongst the participants enhance the narrative's authenticity. Whereas in books and mms, Fults, Parker, Barrow, and Hamilton have been romanticized or depicted as one-dimensional, depraved characters, Running with Bonnie and Clyde shows them as real people, products of social, political, and economic forces that directed them into a life of crime and bound them to it for eternity. Although basing his account primarily on Fults's testimony, Phillips substantiates that viewpoint with references to scores of eyewitness interviews, police files and court documents, and contemporary news accounts. An important contribution to criminal and social history, Running with Bonnie and Clyde will be fascinating reading for scholars and general readers alike.
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Good in Good jacket. Book viii-xvii, 395pp, b/w illustrated. Yellow photographic d/j with title in green to faded spine. Some shelfwear, small stain to bottom of rear cover, slight creasing to top of d/j spine. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0806128100. Signed by author on title page. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by Univ. of Oklahoma Press in 1996. Top and side edges of pages have some smudging. Title page has an embossed stamp from a previous owner. Book is in good plus condition. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover and has some fading along spine. DJ is in good plus condition. Large 8vo, 395 pages, 1.6 lb.; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 395 pages; Signed by Author.
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0806134291. Signed and inscribed by author on first page. Second printing. SC, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1996. Bottom corners are slightly bumped. First page also includes a note from a granddaughter about how her grandfather turned out. No writing in book (other than first page).; 8.80 X 5.90 X 1 inches; 416 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0806128100. Signed by author on title page. First printing. Hard cover published by Univ. of Oklahoma Press in 1996. Light yellow covers with dark lettering on spine. Book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has slight fading to spine and some wrinking on front inner flap, and is in very good condition. Large 8vo, 395 pages, 1.6 lb.; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 395 pages; Signed by Author.
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