The Bobbed Haired Bandit

The Bobbed Haired Bandit
Author: Stephen Duncombe
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2006-02-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814719805


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In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19 year old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a 'baby automatic', a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news and this text brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty and class conflict.


The Bobbed Haired Bandit
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Stephen Duncombe
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-02-06 - Publisher: NYU Press

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In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19 year old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a 'baby automatic', a fur coat, and a fashion
The Bobbed Haired Bandit
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Stephen Duncombe
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Random House Incorporated

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Describes the 1924 crime spree of female armed robber Celia Cooney, a poor, Brooklyn waitress who held up a series of local grocery stores armed with a small gu
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Authors: Bob Friel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-20 - Publisher: Hachette UK

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The Barefoot Bandit tells the riveting true story of Colton Harris-Moore, America's twenty-first-century outlaw. Born into a poor family marred by alcohol abuse
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Pages: 40
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Pages: 344
Authors: Caitlin Davies
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-14 - Publisher: The History Press

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