On the Lam: A History of Hunting Fugitives in America

by Ed Palattella and Jerry Clark

Book Overview

Fugitives occupy a unique place in the American criminal justice system. They can run and they can hide, but eventually each chase ends. And, in many cases, history is made along the way. John Dillinger's capture obsessed J. Edgar Hoover and helped create the modern FBI. Violent student radicals who went on the lam in the 1960s reflected the turbulence of the era. The sixteen-year disappearance and sudden arrest of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442262583
• ISBN13: 9781442262584
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"