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Informationen zum Autor By Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella Klappentext As long as the United States has banks, robbers will try to steal from them. A History of Heists details trends in bank robbery, including how advances in law enforcement and security have foiled many bandits. The ostensible goal of every bank robbery is to get the money, but it is a crime that often has a strong hold on the popular imagination. Zusammenfassung As long as the United States has banks! robbers will try to steal from them. A History of Heists details trends in bank robbery! including how advances in law enforcement and security have foiled many bandits. The ostensible goal of every bank robbery is to get the money! but it is a crime that often has a strong hold on the popular imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1: Breaking In: Early Banks and Early Thieves2: The Original Outlaw: Jesse James, the Civil War, and Crimes like No Other3: Robbery on the Range: The Wild West, the Wild Bunch, and the Rise of the Professional Bandit4: The G-Men Get Guns: Bank Robbery and the Birth of the Modern FBI5: Marquee Mayhem: John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, and the Glamorization of the Gangster6: Lone Wolves: Willie Sutton, the Great Brink's Robbery, and a Thief Found Dead7: Countercultural Chaos: Clean-Cut Killers, Patty Hearst, and a Dog Day Afternoon8: Striking Back, Striking Big: Boosted Bank Security and Record-Breaking Hauls9: Robbery and Reverberations: Pizza Bomber, the Post-9/11 FBI, and Online HeistsAfterword
