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People were no more inclined to romanticize the brutality and ruthlessness that were characteristic of the outlaws of the day than they were at any other time of their history. When individual bandits captured the public imagination, public sympathy proved less enduring. Clyde Barrow was, after all, responsible for the deaths of half a dozen lawmen; George "Baby Face" Nelson, another sociopath, was the slayer of three special agents of the FBI. The public, even in the darkest days of the Depression, could never accept that kind of violence. But initially and from a distance, these outlaws seemed to possess something neither the urban gangster nor the corrupt cop could — an audacity and resourcefulness many couldn't help but admire. When "Pretty Boy" Floyd rushed into a bank waving his machine gun, he was as apt to take with him (and destroy) as many...
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