By J. R. Moehringer
"Electrifying." —Booklist (starred)
Willie Sutton used to be born within the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he got here of age at a time while banks have been uncontrolled. Sutton observed just one means out and just one method to win the lady of his goals. So begun the occupation of America's so much winning financial institution robber. in the course of 3 many years Sutton grew to become so solid at breaking into banks, the FBI placed him on its first-ever such a lot sought after record. however the public rooted for the felony who by no means fired a shot, and while Sutton used to be ultimately stuck for sturdy, crowds on the detention center chanted his name.
In J.R. Moehringer's retelling, it was once greater than want or rage that drove Sutton. It used to be his past love. And whilst he eventually walked free—a shock pardon on Christmas Eve, 1969—he instantly got down to locate her.
"What Hilary Mantel did for Thomas Cromwell and Paula McLain for Hadley Hemingway . . . J.R. Moehringer now does for financial institution robber Willie Sutton." —Newsday
"Thoroughly soaking up. . . . packed with brilliant and colourful re-creations of no longer one yet a number of instances within the American past." —Kevin Baker, writer of Strivers Row
"[J.R. Moehringer] has came upon an ancient topic equivalent to his bright mind's eye, gimlet journalistic eye, and pitch-perfect ear for discussion. by way of turns suspenseful, humorous, romantic, and sad—in brief, a ebook you won't have the capacity to positioned down." —John Burnham Schwartz, writer of Reservation Road and The Commoner
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However, his theological critique, the stricter doctrinal analysis that he presents, is misleading. A similar problem exists in Maas’s argument, which seems to take the extreme position drawn from Devreesse’s more nuanced statements. e. Constantinopolitan and North African) context in which to study Junillus, Maas relies on scholarly positions (Kihn vs. Devreesse) that are, I would suggest, both obsolete. Kihn and Devreesse, despite the great learning of their respective volumes, were engaged in dogmatic history not wholly disembedded from the contemporary theological concerns of their day.
Cox, Patricia. Biography in Late Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1983). Cox Miller, Patricia. ‘“Differential Networks”: Relics and Other Fragments in Late Antiquity’, JECS 6 (1998): 113–138. New Themes and Styles in Greek Literature 25 ———. ‘Strategies of Representation in Collective Biography: Constructing the Subject as Holy’, in Thomas Hägg and Philip Rousseau (eds), Greek Biography and Panegyric in Late Antiquity (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2000), 209–254. ———. The Poetry of Thought in Late Antiquity: Essays in Imagination and Religion (Aldershot: 2001).
Constantinopolitan and North African) context in which to study Junillus, Maas relies on scholarly positions (Kihn vs. Devreesse) that are, I would suggest, both obsolete. Kihn and Devreesse, despite the great learning of their respective volumes, were engaged in dogmatic history not wholly disembedded from the contemporary theological concerns of their day. My point is important and perhaps obvious: questions of intellectual history may sometimes be resolved by thoroughly disengaging them from the preceding theological disputes which served as their original framework.
