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The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
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For 13 violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only 41 members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger's daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at Little Bohemia Lodge, along with his countless bank robberies, excited the imagination of a despondent country. He eluded the lawmen of a half-dozen states and the growing power of the FBI, earning him the dubious honor of Public Enemy Number One and captivating Americans to the present day. His brief but significant career is vividly chronicled here in extraordinary detail, as is the entire outlaw era of Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, and Machine Gun Kelly. John Toland conducted hundreds of interviews; his research took him through 34states, into the cells where Dillinger was confined, and into every bank he robbed.

The Dillinger Days is the inside account of a desperate and determined war between the law and the lawless, a struggle that did not end until a unique set of circumstances led to Dillinger's bloody death outside a Chicago movie house.

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Riveting Historical Account • Comprehensive Gangster Coverage • Excellent Narration • Detailed Criminal Biographies
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while I loved the book overall, the fact that the narrator felt the need to say coopay instead of coupe drove me absolutely crazy.

overall a pretty straightforward account.

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The voice is pretty cheesy. Great story overall. The book was pretty accurate no myth.

Good

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I recently saw the movie on John Dillinger, and so when I saw a book entitled The Dillinger Days, I had to check it out. Marvelous book from beginning to end. I would highly recommend it. All thumbs up.

Riveting book!

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I probably first read this book 35 years ago and enjoyed very much hearing Grover Gardner re-read it to me. Dillinger is the main focus but Toland also expertly weaves in the stories of Bonnie and Clyde,The Barkers and various other criminals and law enforcement officers. Never a dull moment and gripping at times. Would love to see Audible get an unabridged version of Bryan Burrough's Public Enemies to get a more recent take on the same era.

Old one but a good one

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Good book, well written and entertaining. I spotted a lot of inaccuracies and generalities, but as long as you’re not using this as a basis for a scholarly work- highly recommend. I gave it five stars due to it being well written and entertaining, not to mention it currently being free. Even if I’d paid for it, despite spotting inaccuracies- I would feel like I got a good value.

Great book- just know there are inaccuracies

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A good fun listen, This narrator is always good and his voice is appropriate for the times.

Fun book

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I liked this book . I have a interest in John Dillinger and the depression gangs!

very good!

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It was nice to hear a good, straightforward telling with no favoritism or leanings. The book let’s you decide for yourself how you view the Gangsters and the Cops, and the FBI of that time.

Excellent reader as well.

Excellent straightforward telling of the facts.

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A good listen, but I wonder if it's as a good a read. Toland's treatment is surface level, and could have benefited from more detail.

Grover Gardner Salvages a Superficial Tome

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Published in 1963, John Toland‘s exhaustive study of America’s Public Enemy No.1, his crimes, the times, and tolls the Midwest Crime Wave took on its participants, remains, nearly sixty years on, fascinating biographical drama, deserving no less than a reading by that greatest of narrators, Grover Gardener.

A Wild Ride and then some

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