You Cant Win

You Cant Win Is An Autobiography By Burglar And Hobo Jack Black, Written In The Early To Mid-1920s And First Published In 1926. The Book Tells Of Blacks Experiences In The Hobo Underworld, Freight-hopping Around The Western United States And Canada, With The Majority Of Incidents Taking Place From The Late 1880s To Around 1910. He Tells Of Becoming A Thief, Burglar, And Member Of The Yegg (safe-cracking) Subculture, Exploring The Topics Of Crime, Criminal Justice, Vice, Addictions, Penology, And Human Folly From Various Viewpoints, From Observer To Consumer To Supplier, And From Victim To Perpetrator.