A comical look at todays business structure and how it effects all of us. Mr. Parker not only has "been there - done that", but he gives the tools and provides thought provoking insight on how to become the best manager/supervisor you can. I will keep this one by my side for quick reference.

A must read for managers and supervisors.

KCR

E.R. Milner has constructed a pretty fair history of the Barrow gang in The Lives and Times of Bonnie & Clyde. Using contemporary newspaper accounts and police records, he provides detailed accounts of even many of the gang's minor crimes, such as early gas station holdups, and we B&C buffs naturally want all the details we can get. There are some previously unpublished photos, which is a must. There is also too much dialogue for historical purposes, much of it taken, unfortunately, from Jan Fortune's error-strewn Fugitives, the ghosted 1934 memoirs of Emma Parker and Nell Barrow Cowan which in turn derived as much from Ed Portley's 1934 True Detective articles as it did from Bonnie's mother and Clyde's sister. There are quite a number of typos, mostly wrong first names and misspellings of surnames and it is equally unfortunate that Milner failed to visit many of the locations prominent in the Bonnie and Clyde story, where key participants in the events still live, such as Dexter, Iowa. Milner told me once he regretted not having gone to Iowa inasmuch as Dexter was the turning point in the gang's history just as surely as Northfield, Minnesota was the Waterloo of the James gang. Having recently reread this book, I also regret he didn't come to Iowa. The three gas stations the gang hit before going to the Platte City, MO motel were in Fort Dodge, Iowa, not Kansas. Speaking of Minnesota, a visit to Okabena would have raised considerable doubts in the author's mind as to the Barrows' guilt in the bank robbery there. No eyewitnesses ever identified the Barrows there but two men and a woman were later convicted of the Okabena bank job. Milner's epilogue leaves much to be desired. Clyde's mother was shot in 1938, as Milner reports, but not by "an unknown attacker." The would-be assassin was a former minor gang member ostracized by the Barrow family as a "rat" and the shooting resulted from a feud with them which also involved a number of bombings. Cumie was also more than "slightly wounded"--like Blanche she lost the sight of one eye. Little or nothing is recorded of the deaths of Bonnie's mother or other principal participants such as B&C ambushers Henderson Jordan, Prentiss Oakley and Manny Gault. Kidnap victim Thomas (wrongly named as Jimmy!) Persell is only recorded as having retired from the Springfield, MO P.D. And the sideshow "career" of the death car should have been traced down to its present whereabouts in a Nevada casino. In view of the errors and omissions, I feel I must drop a star from my previous rating of this work. Still, Milner did Bonnie and Clyde better than many before him and both his book and the recent Running With Bonnie and Clyde by John Neal Phillips deserve a respectable slot in any crime library.

I never tire of reading about Bonnie and Clyde and I enjoyed this book. It was very well researched. All quotes and sources are well documented. It was disappointingly short especially since the auther had so much great research to draw from. In a true crime book I also like lots of photographs. It gives me a feel for the period. The photo's in this book are few and of poor quality. This book is good and I recommend it. I can't help but think it could have been great, but falls short.

This is some amazing reading! Milner covers every little detail and covers their lives chronologically. Every getaway, heist, route taken and shot fired is covered in this excellent crime bio. A real thriller. I couldn't stop reading it. One comes away with a new perspective on this deadly duo. Bringing in all the other members of the gang in various small holdups, it brings to focus that they were not like the Hollywood darlings on the screen, but cold-blooded and ruthless killers. They were akin to desperate rats hanging on day to day. Full of fast cars, bullets and blood, this is one of the finest crime accounts I've ever read. A real page turner and barn burner!

Ted Hinton was one of the six officers who ambushed and killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. He had also known Clyde and Bonnie before they became outlaws, growing up in the same West Dallas slum, and remained a friend of the Barrow and Parker families. This gives the book some unique personal insights usually absent from cops & robbers documentaries. That, plus some previously unpublished photos, are worth an extra star in this reviewer's mind. On the other hand, Hinton's version of the final ambush is as questionable as every previous account and there are errors scattered throughout the book, possibly owing to slips of memory, or possibly due to slipups from Hinton's collaborator. Bonnie Parker was not present at the Stringtown, OK shooting, a fact attested to by all eyewitness accounts. Moreover, the Hinton-Grove account of the shooting, with Bonnie dancing with both Clyde and Hamilton, whirling about in a red dress, and the "prettiest girl" in the place, is actually copied almost word for from a 1945 dime novel (The Blood-Soaked Career of Bonnie Parker: How Clyde Barrow and His Cigar-Smoking Moll Fought It Out With the Law! by W.R. and Mabel Draper). The chapter on "Machine Gun" Kelly and Harvey Bailey appears to be largely nonsensical fiction. Contrary to Hinton--and he seems to inject himself into the case much sooner than he actually was--W.D. Jones was not identified by Dallas deputies immediately after the Joplin, MO gun battle and remained unidentified for months afterwards. The Barrows' participation in professionally executed bank robberies at Okabena, MN and Alma, ARK is highly questionable and, again contrary to Hinton, no witnesses identified Clyde and Bonnie in the November 1933 robbery of a Texas refinery (a job actually pulled by the Whitey Walker-Blackie Thompson gang). Still, there is much good information here and it is a must for Bonnie and Clyde aficionados.

Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde is Ted Hinton's account describing the early years and the facts leading up to the bloody end of two desparate criminals. Hinton speaks out as one of the six men who killed Bonnie and Clyde in a hailstorm of bullets without warning on the morning of May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana. This book is well illustrated and provides several rare pictures. I recommend this book to readers.

A very good book, written from the perspective of one of the officers on the trail of the fugitives. This book provides insight into several areas which aren't mentioned by other writers on the Barrow gang. A well-written, fluid book, for the most part. Definitely worth searching for, since it appears to be out of print.

This book is helpful, if you have no idea about what it means to write a dissertation. It does provide an overview of all of the basics, like what it means to select a committee, and how many pages make an average dissertation. However, it is full of advice that boils down to, "do what you need to do" and "do it with integrity".

While it is a very compact book, and has lots of useful information, it's a bit like reading a style manual. Several books for social scientists are available (see Howard Becker), and some of the books that deal more with the psychology of writing (and staying motivated to write) the dissertation might be a better buy.

I have read several books on dissertation writing and this one seems to cover all the bases in the most concise form. However, I gave it only four stars because there is no guide to further reading, which I think is essential.

As someone who works privately with students, helping them with dissertations, I highly recommend this book. When students call me in regard to assistance with their dissertation, I recommend that they buy this book and use it as an ongoing reference. The information contained in this book anticipates and answers many of the questions that students have about the dissertation process. It is the most practical guideline for writing a dissertation that I have come across in recent years.

This is one of those books I rated much more highly when I first read it years ago. It's a "strange history" indeed. It's not always a "straight" history, anyway, dwelling more on psychological speculations about the personalities of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and on the growth of their legend (with comparisons to older historical and/or folkloric figures such as Jesse James, Robin Hood and even King Arthur) than on a straight recounting of the facts. Movie buffs will be fascinated with the many motion picture adaptations of the Bonnie and Clyde story and that is an interesting segment which Treherne rightly confined, for the most part, to the appendices. He did leave out the 1949 film They Live By Night (Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell as Clyde & Bonnie clones) and its 1970's remake Thieves Like Us (Keith Carradine and Shelley Duvall) but until Treherne's book I was completely unaware of either the 1939 film Persons in Hiding (one of four bearing this title and based in equal parts on both Bonnie and Clyde and Kathryn and George "Machine Gun" Kelly) or of the 1983 Italian comedy version. But, judging from the title, this book was supposed to be a biography of Clyde and Bonnie and a history of their criminal career. So it is, but little is to found in the historical narrative that is new. Most of it derives from previously published sources such as Jan Fortune's Fugitives and Lee Simmons' Assignment Huntsville, the former an error-ridden work based in equal parts on the recollections of Bonnie's mother and Clyde's sister and (uncredited) on a series of 1934 True Detective articles by Joplin Chief of Detectives Ed Portley, the latter valuable mainly for Simmons' recollections of the Eastham prison break and his recruitment of Frank Hamer and for the statements of gang member Joe Palmer. The confession of W.D. Jones is cited in the bibliography but Treherne seems to have read very little of it. The confession would have made a wonderful appendix, by the way, possibly with comparisons to Jones' 1968 Playboy article, of which Treherne seems completely unaware. Not that Treherne didn't do original research. The chapters on the Stringtown, OK shooting and the Platte City, MO gun battle are based largely on interviews and seem to be accurate accounts. It's a pity he didn't cover the other sites this way. Treherne apparently got no closer to Dexter, IA, the gang's Waterloo, than Des Moines, and missed a lot there. He missed out also on Okabena, MN, the site of a bank robbery Treherne, like previous and later authors, attributed, probably erroneously, to the Barrow gang, and the death site in Louisiana. Details of the final ambush seem to come mainly from the transcripts of Henry Methvin's Oklahoma murder trials and the flawed Ambush account--the ghosted memoirs of Ted Hinton. There is no evidence Treherne ever went near the death site in Bienville Parish. Still, the whole book is an enjoyable read and Treherne wisely used less commonly seen photos than the dozen or so Bonnie and Clyde pix seen in most books on the infamous duo. It is an admirable and worthwhile book. One only wishes it was the straight historical record the title implies. One cannot pschoanylize the dead and the best authorities for the love life of Bonnie and Clyde--whatever the details and whatever dubious historical significance that may entail--died with them. And the growth of the Bonnie and Clyde legend is more suited to a study of folklore than a straight biography.

This is not the best book due to lack of research - many authors seem to complie previously researched facts & information. It is interesting and goes into great detail to explore the legend of Bonnie and Clyde. Reviews all movies and discusses the charachters vs the tru people at length. Not the best, but a nice addition to your collection. John N. Phillip's book is by far the best yet!

Every since studying the Arthur Penn film in college, I've been interested in the myth behind the famous outlaws of the 30's.

The book does an excellent job of fleshing out the people behind the myth. Although I assumed there was some "Hollywood" tampering with the facts of the film, I was more impressed with how accurate the 1967 film actually was in terms of documenting the events. The book fills in the gaps and expands not only on the personalities, but on several key events in the criminals spree that couldn't be included in the 1967 film. While the '67 film tended to humanize Barrow and Parker, this book cuts straight to core of the unbalanced and unsocial behavior of the two.

If you're a fan of the film, or at all interested in the history behind Barrow and Parker, this is the book to read.

I really enjoyed it!

The family photographs, provided by Clyde's youngest sister, Marie Barrow Scoma, are the highlights of this brief, nearly journalistic account of the notorious bandits who cut a path of robbery and blood across the depression era raped southwest.

Having read the majority of material published about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, I was disappointed that this book offered very little new information or sincere insight into their lives, deaths and motivation. E. R. Milner's "The Lives & Times of Bonnie & Clyde" still remains the epitome biography of the deadly duo. Milner confronts rumor, speculation and legend and delivers the unveiled truth. Scoma and P.W. Steele offer no justification for fact and often cushion the deadly blows dealt out by these two killers (as would be expected when a beloved family member tells the tale).

Obviously, the spotlight lingers on Clyde throughout the book, leaving the reader with much less of an insight on Bonnie than other publications have. This is unfortunate because if Clyde was the mastermind of the Barrow gang, the force behind the violence, Bonnie was the spirit which documented it in her personal writings and communication with her mother and sister (most of this missing in "Family").

Sadly enough, when the reader finishes this book, his or her mind will linger on the photographs ... the haunted look of love and desparation on the faces of the killer's mothers ... the poverty ridden historical sites connected with the duo ... and the casual, sometimes delightful, poses by two of America's most deadly yet fascinating lovers. Their images may be here within these pages, but their spirit, albeit evil, lies elsewhere.

If you've seen the movie and liked it, but wanted a little more detail and background info then you should really check out The Family Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Phillip Steele and none other than Clyde's own sister Marie Barrow Scoma. This book really takes full advantage of Marie's first hand knowledge about her brother and runs with it. Although, if you have a problem with violence or gruesome details i would probably avoid this one. Clyde Barrow's life begins near Teleco, Texas where he spent his early years often left to the care of his older sister Nell. He and his 6 other brothers and sisters were often unintentionally neglected by their parents. Even as a young child, Clyde loved movies with outlaws like Jesse James and would imagine himself to be these outlaws for weeks after seeing the movies. His family never stayed any one place very long, and, as a result, the kids didn't attend much school. The family soon moved to West Dallas, a homeless and vagrant area. Clyde left school at age 17, and, being handy with cars and machines, he easily found work. His first crime was merely taking a few turkeys from a neighbor's yard, but not long after that he pulled his first armed robbery. Then, teaming up with his brother, Buck, and a few other friends, he robbed the Buell Lumber Company. Soon after this is when the Outlaw Gang was formed and they robbed a few more shops before getting caught. When this happened, Clyde decided to clean up his act and he opened a family gas station with his dad. Clyde met Bonnie in January of 1930. Bonnie Parker, who had just suffered a divorce, was helping a friend who had broken her arm when Clyde stopped by to visit the girl he also new. "It was apparently love at first sight for both of them." Clyde spent the night at the Parkers and must have been pretty embarrassed when police showed up with warrants for his arrest. Bonnie wrote Clyde in jail and pleaded him never to do anything like this again, but she later aided in his escape by slipping him a gun that he and an inmate used on the guard. This marks the beginning of the infamous duo known as Bonnie and Clyde. Over the next few years, the 2 partners in crime, along with various other gang members, successfully rob over 100 businesses. You probably already know or at least have heard about the dramatic finale, but just in case, I'll leave it to you to read the book. I will tell you, however, that the tragic ending involves over 200 bullet holes. This book altogether gives an in depth background to each member and has incredible action along with humor and drama. I enjoyed The Family Story of Bonnie and Clyde tremendously. Even if you haven't heard, read, or seen anything about Bonnie and Clyde, this book covers everthing from A to Z( even whether or not Clyde was homosexual)in a way that is fairly easy to follow. I would recomend this book to anyone who enjoys action and a gripping tale of love, hate, betrayal, comedy, and two wild outlaws.

Marie Barrow Scoma is Clyde Barrow's youngest sister and felt that no book, film, article or video told the story of Bonnie and Clyde and their Barrow Gang completely or accurately. Collaborating with Philip Steel, Marie offers not only her personal insight, but also previously unpublished photographs and her mother's diary, which have never before been seen by anyone outside the Barrow family. The Family Story Of Bonnie And Clyde casts new information on one of the most infamous criminal couples in the history of the United States. This candid and informative contribution of the family story behind the folklore and legend is a welcome contribution to American history in general, and the biographical story of Bonnie and Clyde in particular.