Books on Monday: The James Boys

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What happens when you mix the stodgy, speculative popular-academic history of some hitherto dark corner of pop culture and its antecedents, on the one hand, and the prosy excitements of the old-fashioned dime novel on the other? The James Boys, that’s what. You knew that William and Henry were the older brothers of Jesse and Frank, right?