On January 5, 1924, a well-dressed young woman, accompanied by a male companion, walked into a Brooklyn grocery, pulled a “baby automaticR...
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Jun 10, 2010
Marley
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I have read a lot of old newspapers c 1924 for my historical work and I either missed or din't remember The Bobbed Haired Bandit. Authors Stephen Duncome and Andrew Mattson fixed that.
Two things I especially liked about the book were (1)without pretension or arrogance the self-creation and self-awareness of Celia Cooney and (2) the Bobbed Haired Bandit as the nexus of "social issues" of the day: crime, poverty, class, feminism, gender roles, motherhood, and fashion, to na More...
Two things I especially liked about the book were (1)without pretension or arrogance the self-creation and self-awareness of Celia Cooney and (2) the Bobbed Haired Bandit as the nexus of "social issues" of the day: crime, poverty, class, feminism, gender roles, motherhood, and fashion, to na More...
Sep 16, 2007
Maya
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Narrative nonfiction is not my cup of tea. This is a pretty entertaining story of a woman with bobbed hair who robbed drugstores in Brooklyn in the 1920s. It's fairly entertaining for what it is, I did turn the pages quickly, but I wouldn't say it was that interesting. I guess the point was that the story quickly became fictionalized and drummed up by the press but I would have preferred something that focussed less on the press than on digging up some objective truths about marriage, class,
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Mar 10, 2011
Yasmine
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Thrilling! Makes me wish I were born in the 1920s even more than I do now. Read it if you like EXCITEMENT! CRIME! FLAPPERS!
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