Talk with Michael P. Daley, author of Bobby BlueJacket
Praise for Bobby BlueJacket:
“Insightful, angry, straightforward, reminiscent of the subterranean classic You Can’t Win by Jack Black—Daley’s BlueJacket pulls no punches describing a long life as fascinating as it is heartbreaking in its details.”
—Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence and Elvissey
“It’s a compelling read, full of violence and heart.”
—Joshua Kline, This Land Press
“This book is not only a fascinating and richly detailed biography of a wily child of the Great Depression who at an early age drifted into a life of serious crime and serious punishment, it is also an intimate portrait of his complex emotional and intellectual life. Bobby BlueJacket. The story is as good as the sound of his beautiful name.”
—Ron Padgett, Bean Spasms and Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers
“Brilliant book... [BlueJacket] is quoted extensively throughout as he was at times eloquent, always appeared to be honest, wrote for prison papers, clearly read a great deal, but was a voice of mystery who raised philosophical questions inadvertantly... a book of history that suggests that in the right hands anyone could be plucked from the crowd and in the proper hands and mind written into an iconic figure in a wide-ranging book of history and sociology, and, inevitably psychology.”
—Rick Harsch, The Manifold Destiny of Eddie Vegas
“[A] rarity in literature—a history told by the defeated, but still unvanquished. As such, Daley has created an engrossing and unique story that will compel your attention from beginning to end.”
—Bryan Zepp Jamieson, Electric Review
“An amazing cultural history as much as it is a story of Bobby BlueJacket.”
—Rich Fisher, Public Radio Tulsa
“Each time I picked up Bobby BlueJacket, I got lost in its pages, even at the points where I was utterly horrified by what I read… I highly recommend this book for anyone and everyone, not only because it is fascinating, well-written, and incredibly well-researched, but because it provides layer upon layer of indispensable information told primarily through a first-person account of lived experiences. It’s the kind of narrative history we need more of, especially centering marginalized voices, especially today.”
—Samantha Puc, In Full Bleed
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