Chasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy No. 1

Chasing Dillinger: Police Captain Matt Leach, J. Edgar Hoover and the Rivalry to Capture Public Enemy No. 1

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Publisher's Synopsis

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s. Pushing a media campaign aimed at smoking out the fugitive, Leach elevated Dillinger to unprecedented notoriety. In return, Dillinger taunted him with phone calls and postcards, and vowed to kill him. Leach's use of publicity backfired, making him a pariah among his fellow policemen, and the FBI ordered his firing in 1937 for challenging their authority. This is the first full-length biography of the man.

Book information

ISBN: 9781476674650
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Imprint: Exposit Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 364.1523092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 289
Weight: 372g
Height: 150mm
Width: 224mm
Spine width: 20mm