All Honest Men: A Biographical Novel - Hardcover

Claude Stanush; Michele Stanush

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579620841 ISBN 13: 9781579620844

Publisher: Permanent Pr Pub Co, 2003

Synopsis

A fictionalized account of the life of J. Willis Newton and his brothers, who made a career out of robbing banks and trains in the early 1900s, told from Newton's point of view.

About this title

About the Author:

Claude Stanush and his daughter, Michele, are an unusual Texas writing team. On the staff of Life magazine for 13 years, Claude served as Hollywood correspondent, science writer, religion editor, chief of correspondents in Washington, D.C., and associate editor before going out on his own to write essays, short stories and film scripts. Michele wrote for newspapers in Austin and San Antonio, Texas, and was a Michigan Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan before becoming a free-lancer. Both father and daughter have won state and national awards for their writing. In 1973, Claude met and befriended Willis and Joe Newton who by then were retired bank robbers.

From Booklist:

Although most readers have probably never heard of them, the Newton gang-- J. Willis Newton and his brothers Joe, Jess, and Dock--were bank and train robbers who, during their relatively short career in the 1920s, grabbed more cash than did the Dalton gang, Jesse James, and Butch Cassidy put together. The gang was the subject of the 1999 movie The Newton Boys, for which Claude Stanush cowrote the screenplay (his cowriter here is his daughter, a journalist). This account, written as the autobiography of Willis Newton, is wonderfully entertaining whether or not you've seen the movie. The authors are intimately familiar with their material--Claude met and became quite close to Willis and Joe in the early 1970s, by which time the notorious outlaws had long been retired--and the book thrusts us into the roaring twenties and keeps us spellbound. The Stanushes have created a voice for Willis that's lively, impertinent, jocular, and honest. A rollickin' good time for true-crime fans. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Permanent Pr Pub Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1579620841
• ISBN 13: 9781579620844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320