| Escape from Alcatraz: The True Crime Classic Revised Edition Contributor(s): Campbell Bruce, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1580086780 ISBN-13: 9781580086783 Publisher: Ten Speed Press OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: The true-crime classic first published in 1963 is reissued in this special edition. Bruce chronicles in spell-binding detail the Rock's transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such famous inmates as the Birdman of Alcatraz and Al Capone. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Organized Crime - Social Science | Penology - History | United States - State & Local - West (ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy) |
| Dewey: 365.979 |
| LCCN: 2005002738 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.04" W x 9.02" (0.82 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Northern California - Cultural Region - West Coast - Geographic Orientation - California - Locality - San Francisco, California |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil's Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison. Author J. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the Rock's transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such infamous inmates as Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman of Alcatraz, and mobster Al "Scarface" Capone. The chapters describing the daring escape attempts by Frank Morris and two accomplices from this "inescapable" prison became the basis for the 1979 Clint Eastwood movie. Discover the intriguing and absorbing saga of Alcatraz, whose name is still synonymous with punitive isolation and deprivation, where America's most violent and notorious prisoners resided in tortuous proximity to one of the world's favorite cities. |