Original book - GANGSTERS - Criminals, cops, victims, witnesses, USA 1930-1960 - Press photographs - Heredium edition

A unique work in the world! The history of the United States, in the first half of the 20th century, is full of colorful gangster figures, such as those of Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, who illustrated the mythical golden age of the great banditry. To them the big headlines of national and foreign newspapers, biographies, films relating their misdeeds. However, you will not find them in this book, which is not devoted to them. Because there are other thugs, obscure unknowns, without glory or panache, John T. Honeycutt, Marion Barhart, Charles Jefferson and Irene Kelly, and so many others, who crisscrossed the country at the same time, sowing terror on their passage, piercing safes, ripping off, murdering. Just like their illustrious colleagues, but these were only entitled to a few articles in the local chronicles. Then they sank into deserved oblivion. Gangsters offers nearly 200 vintage photographic portraits, which are all rare documents, most of them unpublished, concerning these everyday thugs. This book brings together photographs from press agencies, taken on the spot in police stations, when the suspects arrive, during police custody or when presented to the investigating judge. First-hand documents, imbued with realism and humanity. Beyond the evocation of these small strikes without scale, it is the face of the United States, fractured by the Great Depression, which is revealed. An unknown America, that of the lowlands, with sordid reality, revealing itself through these images of desperately common people, caught in the turmoil of an implacable era. A striking testimony, a window on history. Strong points : - 208 pages - Edition: HEREDIUM - 24.5cm × 30.8cm × 2.5cm - 1.492 Kg