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Alcatraz : the gangster years
- Title
- Alcatraz : the gangster years / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum.
- Author
- Ward, David A.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Kassebaum, Gene G.
- Description
- xxvii, 548 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-522) and index.
- Contents
- The federal government's war on "public enemies" -- A new form of imprisonment -- Selecting the "worst of the worst" -- The program -- Organized resistance : a regime tested -- Finding a hole in the rock : the first escape attempts -- Alcatraz on trial -- The war years -- The battle of Alcatraz -- Resistance and adaptation -- Outlaws among outlaws -- Celebrity prisoners -- Return to the free world -- Lessons from Alcatraz for supermax prisons.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-2279
- ISBN
- 9780520256071 (alk. paper)
- 0520256077 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008021232
- OCLC
- YBP 2008021232
- Author
- Ward, David A.
- Title
- Alcatraz : the gangster years / David A. Ward ; with Gene Kassebaum.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 467-522) and index.
- Added Author
- Kassebaum, Gene G.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-2279