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Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
David Ward
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Description for Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
Paperback. Brings to life the stories of legendary 'public enemies' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. This book contains answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime? and What provoked the protests and strikes? Num Pages: 584 pages, 72 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 144 x 38. Weight in Grams: 850. The Gangster Years. 584 pages, Illustrations. Brings to life the stories of legendary 'public enemies' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. This book contains answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime? and What provoked the protests and strikes?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JKVP1. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 38. Weight: 796.
Al Capone, George 'Machine Gun' Kelly, Alvin Karpis, 'Dock' Barker - these were just a few of the legendary 'public enemies' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In "Alcatraz: The Gangster Years", David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of 'The Rock'. "Alcatraz" is the only book ... Read more
Al Capone, George 'Machine Gun' Kelly, Alvin Karpis, 'Dock' Barker - these were just a few of the legendary 'public enemies' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. In "Alcatraz: The Gangster Years", David Ward brings their stories to life, along with vivid accounts of the lives of other infamous criminals who passed through the penitentiary from 1934 to 1948. Ward, who enjoyed unprecedented access to FBI, Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Federal Parole records, conducted interviews with one hundred former Alcatraz convicts, guards, and administrators to produce this definitive history of 'The Rock'. "Alcatraz" is the only book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520265967
SKU
V9780520265967
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About David Ward
David Ward is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He is the coauthor (with Gene Kassebaum) of Prison Treatment and Parole Survival and coeditor (with Kenneth Schoen) of Confinement in Maximum Custody: New Last-Resort Prisons in the United States and Europe. Ward served as consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary for an ... Read more
Reviews for Alcatraz: The Gangster Years
"Enjoyable as well as informative. Anyone who has read it is unlikely to look upon the Rock quite the same way ever again."
Martin Rubin San Francisco Chronicle "Alcatraz, as David Ward has re-created it, is irresistible to read about."
Ben Pesta California Lawyer "Alcatraz: The Gangster Years deserves a place in the library of anyone or institution." ... Read more
Martin Rubin San Francisco Chronicle "Alcatraz, as David Ward has re-created it, is irresistible to read about."
Ben Pesta California Lawyer "Alcatraz: The Gangster Years deserves a place in the library of anyone or institution." ... Read more