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Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy

Baby Face Nelson examines the paradoxical and interesting figure of Lester Joseph Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson. With new, formerly classified information from the FBI, the book recounts the life of a public enemy who became addicted to crime in his youth and intoxicated with violence near the end of his life.

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