Lester Joseph Gillis - better known to the public and press of the
1930s as Baby Face Nelson - was one of a succession of public
enemies beginning with John Dillinger and progressing to Bonnie and
Clyde, Ma Barker, Machine Gun Kelly, and Pretty Boy Floyd. For
decades their stories were largely myths, containing a combination
of popular folklore and carefully crafted FBI fables. In recent
years historians have generated a more factual look at the life and
times of the various Depression-era desperados. Until now Baby Face
Nelson has remained as enigmatic and one-dimensional as he was
then, portrayed by J. Edgar Hoover and newsmen as a trigger-happy
punk who looked like a choirboy and killed without a conscience.
Finally the full story of his short life can be told. Using new
information that comes from the formerly classified files of the
FBI, the Nelson who emerges from the pages of Baby Face Nelson:
Portrait of a Public Enemy is a more paradoxical and interesting
figure than one might expect. Obviously addicted to crime in his
youth and evidently intoxicated with violence near the end of his
life, he came from an ordinary, honest middle-class family. In a
surprising departure from the gangster norm, Nelson and his wife
remained fiercely devoted to one another, and between holdups they
often lived a quiet domestic life with their two children and, at
times, Nelson's mother. The main focus of this biography is on
Nelson's remarkable criminal career, from sensational bank
robberies and blazing gun battles up to his death at the age of
twenty-five. Many misconceptions are corrected and some of the
abuses of the FBI are exposed.
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