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...DILLINGER DAYS (371 pp.)-John Toland-Random House...
...this lively account of Dillinger and the other gangs that roistered through the Midwest during those Depression years, John Toland records not only what kind of men made the gangs but what kind of climate made the men. When Dillinger (he pronounced it with a hard g) formed his first gang in 1933, the national income had dropped to half of what it was in 1929. Dillinger thought of himself as a modern Jesse James, and he never tired of saying that he merely recovered from the bankers what they had stolen from the people-an assertion that a surprising...