Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother

Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother - Paperback

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Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother - Paperback

Ma Barker: America's Most Wanted Mother - Paperback

by Chris Enss , Howard Kazanjian
$16.95
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Was Arizona Donnie Clark, AKA Kate "Ma" Barker the mastermind behind the Barker gang terrorizing the Midwest during the early years of the great Depression? Or was she a terrible mother who urged her sons to criminal behavior for her own financial gain? Or does the truth lie somewhere in between. This lively retelling of the legend of Ma Barker and her boys is full of action, intrigue, and the answers to mysteries that have lingered for more than 70 years.

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Kate Barker wanted the nice things of life: the lovely home, the fine clothes, and lots of money in the bank. She ended up with a police slug in her heart and $10,200 in her wallet. According to FBI records Kate Barker was an overbearing mother who somehow lost her bearings on the path of motherly love. In attempting to guide, she misguided. In trying to spread affection, she nurtured hate. The rational sense of motherly duty was warped by her desire to get the most and fastest for her boys. The boys got this: Son Herman was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1927 after a shootout with a Kansas traffic officer. Son Fred was riddled with eleven gunshot wounds in a police fight and died alongside his mother in 1935. Son Arthur (called Doc) was killed in 1939 during an attempted breakout of Alcatraz. Son Lloyd was slain by his wife in 1949 when she claimed he had threatened her and the children. That was the legacy of Ma Barker, a woman who saw crime as a means to an end but who never counted on things ending like they did.
ISBN9780762796311
Author Chris Enss , Howard Kazanjian
PublisherTwo Dot Books
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2016
LanguageENG- English
Pages240
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Chris Enss is a New York Times Bestselling author who has been writing about women of the Old West for more than a twenty years. She has penned more than forty published books on the subject. Her book entitled Entertaining Ladies: Actresses, Singers, and Dancers in the Old West was a Spur Award finalist in 2017. Enss's book Mochi's War: The Tragedy of the Sand Creek Massacre received the Will Rogers Medallion Award for best nonfiction Western for 2015. Her book entitled Object Matrimony: The Risky Business of Mail Order Matchmaking on the Western Frontier won the Elmer Kelton Award for Best Non-fiction book of 2013. Enss's book Sam Sixkiller: Frontier Cherokee Lawman was named Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society. She lives in Grass Valley, CA.
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Howard Kazanjian is an author and award-winning producer and entertainment executive who has been producing feature films and television programs for more than twenty-five years. While vice president of production for Lucasfilm Ltd., he produced two of the highest grossing films of all time: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. He also managed production of another top-ten box-office hit, The Empire Strikes Back. Some of his other notable credits include The Rookies, Demolition Man, and the two-hour pilot and first season of J.A.G.Chris Enss is an author and award-winning screen writer who has written for television, short subject films, live performances, and for the movies, and is the co-author or author of more than twenty-five books, including The Cowboy and the Senorita; Happy Trails; The Young Duke; and Thunder Over the Prairie--soon to be a motion picture-- with Howard Kazanjian. Her recent books include Frontier Teachers: Stories of Heroic Women of the Old West and The Doctor Wore Petticoats. Enss has done everything from stand-up comedy to working as a stunt person at the Old Tucson Movie Studio. She learned the basics of writing for film and television at the University of Arizona.

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