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You Can't Win, Complete and Unabridged by Jack Black by Jack Black

You Can't Win, Complete and Unabridged by Jack Black

Jack Black

Start Publishing PD · Hardcover · May 22, 2024

My background is crowded with robberies burglaries and thefts too numerous to recall.

Criminals & OutlawsBiography & Memoircrimememoir
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Who it’s for
Jack Black recalls a life of property crimes, arrests, escapes, and imprisonment.
Genres
Criminals & Outlaws, Biography & Memoir
Published
Start Publishing PD, May 22, 2024

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About this book

My background is crowded with robberies burglaries and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests trials acquittals convictions escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails workhouses city prisons Mounted Police barracks dungeons solitary confinement bread and water hanging up brutal floggings and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints wine dumps thieves' resorts and beggars' hangouts.

Crime and Confinement

Jack Black recalls a life of property crimes, arrests, escapes, and imprisonment.

Come here for

  • A first-person inventory of robberies, trials, escapes, and confinement
  • Scenes of jails, prisons, and thieves’ resorts

Expect

  • Robberies, burglaries, and thefts
  • County jails, penitentiaries, and solitary confinement

Where it sits

Criminals & Outlaws88%
Biography & Memoir32%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Biography & Memoir
  • North American History
  • True Crime
Authors
Jack Black
Publisher
Start Publishing PD
Published
May 22, 2024
Format
Hardcover
Reading lane
Biography & Memoir