L'assassinio di Jesse James per mano del codardo Robert Ford

Good, Bad or Ugly: A Legend Shrouded in Gunsmoke Remains Hazy

Before a bullet shattered his skull in 1882, Jesse James cut a bloody swath through parts of the Midwest and the South, leaving a trail of corpses and favorable press notices in his wake. Bad man, poor man, bushwhacker, thief, James was as American as apple pie and the Confederate flag he wrapped himself in like an excuse. That bard of the great unwashed, Woody Guthrie, compared him to Robin Hood, and decades later Bruce Springsteen kept the fires burning, singing about a homespun legend as seductive as it is false. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (7222 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 21 settembre 2007