Tuesday | July 21 | 5:30 PM
Season 8 of the AMA Art Lovers Book Club starts on Tuesday, July 21, when the club will discuss A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue, by Dean Jobb.
The meeting is free and open to the public. An RSVP link for the July 21 meeting will open soon.
ABOUT THE BOOK CLUB
The bimonthly club meets at 5:30 pm in the Willson Auditorium at the Albany Museum of Art. The meetings are free and open to everyone. There is no formal membership, just a love for art, books, and good conversation.
Registration is free for everyone and helps us ensure adequate seating is ready when you arrive. You may also contact AMA Director of Education and Public Programming Annie Van Oteghem at 229.439.8400 or email her HERE.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dean Jobb’s book A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue is a spirited narrative of the career of Arthur Barry, a successful and notorious “second-story” cat burglar of the Jazz Age. The debonaire Barry often met his victims and cased their homes by crashing the parties of the rich and famous.
Barry befriended the Prince of Wales, Harry Houdini and other luminaries. And he became a celebrity and a folk hero, touted in newspaper headlines as the Prince of Thieves, a Modern Robin Hood, and the Aristocrat of Crime. Life magazine proclaimed him “the greatest jewel thief who ever lived.”
His victims included a “who’s who” list of the rich and powerful: Percy Rockefeller, a nephew of John D. and one of the richest men in America; Tulsa oil tycoon Joshua Cosden; Lady Edwina Mountbatten, a member of Britain’s royal family; Wall Street investing legend Jesse Livermore; bankers and industrialists; executives of Chrysler and General Motors; a famous polo player; and Jessie Donahue, heiress to the Woolworth five-and-dime store fortune.
RSVP: Registration will open soon.