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GENTLEMAN GERALD by H. Paul Jeffers, HC 1st Ed. 1995, Gerald Chapman
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America's First "Public Enemy No. 1"
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1st printing. ISBN: 0312135009. Hardcover & jacket, ex-library, in very good condition, only light wear overall, usual stamps/stickers, light soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight, name marked out on first endpage. 8vo (8.5" tall), 249 pages. b/w photos.
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Crime biography fans weary of today's expensive-powders-and-Uzis gangsters and their attendant brutalities and gaucheries well may turn to an earlier age when extreme felons were suitably dignified if no less ruthless--to Gerald Chapman, the subject of Jeffers' fine popular life, for instance. Chapman's heyday was the 1920s. Then, as now, the public loved to be horrified, and the exploits of Chapman and his cronies reinforced the view that the country was headed to hell in a handbasket. Chapman spent his formative years under the tutelage of disguise master and all-around swell criminal George "Dutch" Anderson. The pair had some memorable capers, such as the biggest mail heist up to their time, and their reputations were embellished by that American staple, the sensational trial. Chapman epitomized the Jazz Age gangster until the likes of Capone and Luciano replaced him, and had George Raft been a Chapman cohort, Gentleman Gerald might still be a household name. Anyway, Jeffers restores our first "Public Enemy No. 1" to his original status
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1st printing. ISBN: 0312135009. Hardcover & jacket, ex-library, in very good condition, only light wear overall, usual stamps/stickers, light soiling outer edge of pages, interior clean & tight, name marked out on first endpage. 8vo (8.5" tall), 249 pages. b/w photos.
From Booklist:
Crime biography fans weary of today's expensive-powders-and-Uzis gangsters and their attendant brutalities and gaucheries well may turn to an earlier age when extreme felons were suitably dignified if no less ruthless--to Gerald Chapman, the subject of Jeffers' fine popular life, for instance. Chapman's heyday was the 1920s. Then, as now, the public loved to be horrified, and the exploits of Chapman and his cronies reinforced the view that the country was headed to hell in a handbasket. Chapman spent his formative years under the tutelage of disguise master and all-around swell criminal George "Dutch" Anderson. The pair had some memorable capers, such as the biggest mail heist up to their time, and their reputations were embellished by that American staple, the sensational trial. Chapman epitomized the Jazz Age gangster until the likes of Capone and Luciano replaced him, and had George Raft been a Chapman cohort, Gentleman Gerald might still be a household name. Anyway, Jeffers restores our first "Public Enemy No. 1" to his original status
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