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The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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The bobbed haired bandit; a true story of crime and celebrity in 1920s New York.

Duncombe, Stephen and Andrew Mattson.

New York U. Pr.

2006

383 pages

$27.95

Hardcover

HV6653

She was young, modern, and she packed heat. She had everything a flapper would want, that is, except for money. Clad in a fur coat, Celia Cooney made off with the aforesaid money through a series of grocery store robberies that were reported by the likes of Ring Lardner and Walter Lippman, decried as the evidence that American youth were are going to ...

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