{"title":"Steven Nickel","description":"\u003cp\u003eSTEVEN NICKEL is a freelance writer and the author of two true-crime books. His recent books include \u003cem\u003eBaby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eTorso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNickel has written for the \u003cem\u003eCleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/em\u003e and appeared on NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, A\u0026amp;E’s Biography, and documentaries on the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven lives in Janesville, Wisconsin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteven Nickel’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"baby-face-nelson","title":"Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy","description":"\u003cp\u003eLester Joseph Gillis—better known to the public and press of the 1930s as Baby Face Nelson—was one of a succession of public enemies beginning with John Dillinger and progressing to Bonnie and Clyde, Ma Barker, Machine Gun Kelly, and Pretty Boy Floyd. For decades their stories were largely myths, containing a combination of popular folklore and carefully crafted FBI fables.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years historians have generated a more factual look at the life and times of the various Depression-era desperados. Until now Baby Face Nelson has remained as enigmatic and one-dimensional as he was then, portrayed by J. Edgar Hoover and newsmen as a trigger-happy punk who looked like a choirboy and killed without a conscience. Finally the full story of his short life can be told.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing new information that comes from the formerly classified files of the FBI, the Nelson who emerges from the pages of \u003cem\u003eBaby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy\u003c\/em\u003e is a more paradoxical and interesting figure than one might expect. Obviously addicted to crime in his youth and evidently intoxicated with violence near the end of his life, he came from an ordinary, honest middle-class family. In a surprising departure from the gangster norm, Nelson and his wife remained fiercely devoted to one another, and between holdups they often lived a quiet domestic life with their two children and, at times, Nelson's mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe main focus of this biography is on Nelson's remarkable criminal career, from sensational bank robberies and blazing gun battles up to his death at the age of twenty-five. Many misconceptions are corrected and some of the abuses of the FBI are exposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/168162611X\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781681626116\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Steven Nickel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43233315979480,"sku":"9781581822724","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43233316012248,"sku":"9781681626116","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/BabyFaceNelsonHighres_mockup_v2_1666968446_078b0366-546b-4b07-8022-e90970863390.jpg?v=1791021018"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-steven-nickel.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}