I, Willie Sutton: The Personal Story of The Most Daring Bank Robber and Jail Breaker of Our Time

by Quentin Reynolds

Overview

The story of Willie Sutton is one of the most astonishing in the annals of crime. Known as 'Willie the Actor' for his clever and disarming impersonations, his career was an amazingly successful one of fabulous bank robberies, daring prison breaks, and front page headlines, all of which captured the imagination of America. Yet Willie Sutton was 'clean'-throughout his life of crime he never killed anyone, and he was known as much for his intelligence, manners, and dapper elegance as for his audacious escapades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374527419
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Pages:	273
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.65(d)

Table of Contents

Part 1	A Strange Man
I	A Paradoxical Character	3
II	No One Can Beat the Game	17
Part 2	From Apprentick to Professional
I	What a Man Thinks Alone in His Cell	25
II	My First Taste of Easy Money	41
III	Enter the Women	51
IV	I Learn My Trade	65
V	On My Own and into Sing Sing	83
VI	"Willie the Actor" is Born	99
Part 3	How to Get in and out of Jail
I	Another Man's Woman	109
II	My First Jail Break	131
III	Back in Again	143
IV	I Study Escape and Psychiatry	159
V	The Last Break	177
Part 4	"Eddie Lynch" Tries to go Straight
I	What I Was Running Toward	193
II	I Almost Made It	209
III	Fear Again	219
IV	Another Mary	229
Part 5	It's Willie Sutton
I	The Beginning of the End	241
II	Crime Is For Suckers	259