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Cargando... King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked Americapor J. North Conway
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King of Heists is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, when thieves broke into the Manhattan Savings Institution and stole nearly $3 million in cash and securities--around $50 million in today's terms. Bringing the notorious Gilded Age to life in a thrilling narrative, J. North Conway tells the story of those who plotted and carried out this infamous robbery, how they did it, and how they were tracked down and captured. The robbery was planned to the minutest detail by criminal mastermind George Leonidas Leslie--a society architect and ladies' man whose double life as the nation's most prolific bank robber led him to be dubbed the "King of the Bank Robbers." The New York Times proclaimed the 1878 heist "the most sensational in the history of bank robberies in this country." An absorbing tale of greed, sex, crime, betrayal, and murder, King of Heists blends all the richness of history with the thrills of the best fiction. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book is just acceptable as a novel. I might have enjoyed the book more if the newspaper clippings, photos, and other additions had not continuously interrupted the story. They became so intrusive that they drew unwanted attention to the places where the story and reality parted company and went their separate ways. In real life, the "King of Heists" was dead before the bank robbery of 1878 was carried out and it seems that we have only heresay from the people who actually did rob the bank that he was involved in planning that robbery or any other. The gimcrack called "Little Joker" that was the secret to his bank robbing success was never seen by anyone and there are only conflicting descriptions that ultimately make no sense. ( )