The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York (Mortalis) ebook

by Andrew Mattson,Stephen Duncombe

Andrew Mattson Stephen Duncombe Americas English

Andrew Mattson teaches American Studies and Media Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury .

Andrew Mattson teaches American Studies and Media Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and serves as the Chair and Director of Student Media. He is the coauthor of The Bobbed Haired Bandit, along with Stephen Duncombe, who he met when they were both students at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Home Browse Books Book details, The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime. The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime and Celebrity in 1920s New York. The Bobbed Haired Bandit brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty, of Prohibition and class conflict. With her husband Ed at her side, Celia raised herself from a life of drudgery to become a celebrity in her own pulp-fiction novel, a role she consciously cultivated.

Stephen Duncombe, Andrew Mattson. Ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age, The Bobbed Haired Bandit is a tale of flappers and fast cars, of sex and morality. In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a baby automatic, a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo.

The Bobbed Haired Bandit brings to life a world of great wealth and poverty, of Prohibition and class conflict.

It was a wet New Year’s in New York City as 1923 passed into 1924. The weather was raw: rain, sleet, and snow, with the temperature hovering just around freezing

It was a wet New Year’s in New York City as 1923 passed into 1924. The weather was raw: rain, sleet, and snow, with the temperature hovering just around freezing. A low fog sat on the city, and the damp crept past fur coats and felt hats and seeped into partygoers’ bones.

The Bobbed Haired Bandit by Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson tells the story of Celia and Ed Cooney in 1920s New York

Words like nifty and simp (simple or stupid). The Bobbed Haired Bandit by Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson tells the story of Celia and Ed Cooney in 1920s New York. Newlyweds and newly pregnant, Ed and Celia decide to rob some convenience stores to try and make a better life for themselves.

The Bobbed Haired Bandit book. Authors Stephen Duncome and Andrew Mattson fixed that. by. Stephen Duncombe. Stephen Duncombe uses the story of Celia and Ed Cooney to explore the broader picture of New York at a time when women were starting to really emerge from the domestic-only sphere of home and children.

On January 5, 1924, a well-dressed young woman, accompanied by a male companion, walked into a Brooklyn grocery, pulled a “baby automatic” from the pocket of her fur coat, emptied the cash register, and escaped into the night. Dubbed “the Bobbed Haired Bandit” by the press, the petite thief continued her escapades in the months that followed, pulling off increasingly spectacular robberies, writing taunting notes to police officials, and eluding the biggest manhunt in New York City history. When laundress Celia Cooney was finally caught in Florida and brought back to New York, media attention grew to a fever pitch. Crowds gathered at the courts and jails where she appeared, the public clamored to know her story, and newspapers and magazines nationwide obliged by publishing sensational front-page articles. Celia Cooney was a celebrity, a symbol of the lawlessness of Prohibition-era New York City, a cultural icon of the Jazz Age. The Bobbed Haired Bandit captures what William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper called “the strangest, weirdest, most dramatic, most tragic human interest story ever told.”A wild ride . . . a thumping good read . . . It’s true crime, it’s top-notch American history, it’s flat-out fun–grab it.”–Caleb Carr, author of The Alienist“Riveting . . . an absolute winner.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)“With crisp prose and a lively selection of newspaper photographs, headlines, cartoons, and excerpts, authors Stephen Duncombe and Andrew Mattson tell a story of an outlaw couple and, through them, the story of an era.” –The Boston Globe“A phenomenally complete work of historical literature: gripping, suspenseful, fast-moving, kaleidoscopic, gimlet-eyed, analytic, penetrating, sympathetic, and oddly tender.”–Luc Sante, author of Low Life“Fascinating . . . [a] historical account that reads like Doctorow.”–Crimespree Magazine“Brings alive the darker side of flapper-era Manhattan.”–Entertainment Weekly