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Title: On the Rock by Alvin and Robert Livesey Karpis ISBN: 0825300193 Publisher: Beaufort Books, Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1980 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $5.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.83

Rating: 4
Summary: A super star at the super prison.
Comment: Alvin Karpis is the only man to survive earning the sobriquet "public enemy #1". After a whirlwind time as one of the most infamous outlaws in the lawless days of the1930s, Karpis was captured alive and sent to Alcatraz. His twenty-five years in America's first super-prison is the subject of this memoir.

Built as the government's answer to the 1930's wave of kidnappings and bank-robberies, Alcatraz was to be an escape-proof prison housing only the elite of the criminal world. It was certainly proof that 'crime doesn't pay' especially for the American taxpayers.

Karpis' memoires of his life on the rock showcase his amazing memory and are full of his experieces with the infamous residents of the super-prision. He either has a photograpich memory or his ghost-writer did a great deal of research.

While this is an interesting and informative book, rest assured that Karpis spends a great deal of time making sure that he always presents himself in the most favorable light even if the truth has to suffer.

Rating: 5
Summary: ON THE ROCK
Comment: "ON THE ROCK" by Robert Livesey is a Five-Star book. This true story is told by Public Enemy Number One Alvin Karpis, to Livesey. Karpis decribes his 33 years behind bars, 26 of which were spent in Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. In 1934, only four men ever held the title Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Alvin Karpis. Karpis was the only one who survived the era. This is his story and he told it how it happened. ...Great Book!

Rating: 5
Summary: insightful and entertaining
Comment: alvin karpis the man who documents his life in alcatraz,describes how he survived being held captive on the rock for 25 years.all the fights he had to fight just to survive.how so many prisoners attempted to escape but failed.they either got shot or drowned.one of the surprises was that karpis knew al capone.and how capone went crazy when he got infectefd and died of syphillis.its a tough book about struggle on the rock and its a good one.wish you luck finding it.