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Rick Mattix

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History, Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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Crazy Horse

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Coauthor of:
The Complete Public Enemy Almanac;
Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919-1940;
The Public Enemies Handbook (in progress)

Contributor to:
The Quotable Al Capone;
Dillinger: The Untold Story;
Thompson, The American Legend: The First Submachine Gun

Owner, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of On the Spot Journal
www.onthespotjournal.com/journal.html

Author of numerous articles on historical crime

Consultant to various television and radio crime documentaries. ...more

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Rick Mattix’s books

Average rating: 4.22 · 193 ratings · 20 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Dillinger: The Untold Story Expanded Edition by G. Russell Girardin, William J. Helmer, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story: A Biography by Rose Keefe (Goodreads Author), Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangsters and Outlaw Era, 1920-1940 by William J. Helmer, William J. Helmer, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Public Enemy Almanac: New Facts and Features on the People, Places, and Events of the Gangster and Outlaw Era, 1920-1940 by William Helmer, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author), Rose Keefe (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Public Enemies: America's Criminal Past, 1919-1940 by William J. Helmer, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Public Enemies Handbook: A Who's Who of America's Most Notorious Gangsters by William J. Helmer, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ma: The Life and Times of Ma Barker and Her Boys by John J. Koblas, Rick Mattix (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dillinger's Wild Ride: The Year That Made America's Public Enemy Number One

by Elliott J. Gorn

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A Murder in Tulsa: The Sherrill Murder Case & the Rise of the Barker-karpis Gang

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The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931

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Rick’s Quotes

“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.”
― Kinky Friedman

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“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain