You Can't Win (Paperback)

from Stahl-Ricco

Smiler - “Kid, I'll never try to rob another Mormon. I'll go to work first.” The author, Salt Chunk Mary, the Sanctimonious Kid (Sanc), Civil War veterans and all manner of 'yeggs', vags, bums, win...

from ChazzW

Somewhere, buried in an article about something else, I saw an oblique reference to Jack Black's 1926 memoir as a little known cult classic. Hooked. I'm a sucker for little known classics, so I had...

from amareshjoshi

Very interesting look at the lives of thieves and hobos in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America and Canada. Well written in simple plain language. There were a lot of typos though, a...

from Stbalbach

I'm giving You Can't Win 4.5 stars placing it on the "cult classic" category because almost 100 years after publication it's still in print, there is even a movie version coming out this year (2015...

from datrappert

i have read two autobiographies in a row now, and they couldn't be more different--Chateaubriand and Jack Black! No, not that Jack Black. This is former criminal and hobo Jack Black, who published ...