"A number of people would say a criminal's life should not be glamorized in print ... and maybe this is true but my uncle is a part of history that needed to be recorded," Terry said. "The mere fact he did all those years of incarceration in the worst prisons of the era and mingled with gangsters who became his friends, was released after paying his debt to society, married and became an upstanding citizen of the community in itself is remarkable."
"Remarkable" only if you learn from the experience. Glamorizing gangsters (whether from the 1930s or in the modern era, like the Sopranos) and crime is not honorable.
America is the only country that glamorizes their outlaws and criminals. But, many of our outlaws were folk heros during the frontier era and during the depression.