Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34Penguin, 2009 M04 29 - 624 pages In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power. |
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... Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly: all 1933 or 1934. This was my introduction to the War on Crime. I picked up John Toland's 1963 book, Dillinger Days, a biography that deals glancingly with Dillinger's criminal contemporaries. I ...
... Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly: all 1933 or 1934. This was my introduction to the War on Crime. I picked up John Toland's 1963 book, Dillinger Days, a biography that deals glancingly with Dillinger's criminal contemporaries. I ...
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... Baby Face Nelson Gang Also: Clarence Lieder, Jack Perkins,. The Posse: Frank Hamer, Manny Gault, Bob Alcorn, Ted Hinton, Henderson Jordan, Prentiss Oakley. Also: Paula Harmon, Wynona Burdette, William Weaver, Charles Fitzgerald, Willie.
... Baby Face Nelson Gang Also: Clarence Lieder, Jack Perkins,. The Posse: Frank Hamer, Manny Gault, Bob Alcorn, Ted Hinton, Henderson Jordan, Prentiss Oakley. Also: Paula Harmon, Wynona Burdette, William Weaver, Charles Fitzgerald, Willie.
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... Baby Face Nelson Gang Also: Clarence Lieder, Jack Perkins, Jimmy Murray. The Dillinger Gang 4. Torogo on. Thorn 1971, *P* ow Horow. so Joo. Also: Paula Harmon, Wynona Burdette, William Weaver, Charles Fitzgerald, Willie Harrison. Also ...
... Baby Face Nelson Gang Also: Clarence Lieder, Jack Perkins, Jimmy Murray. The Dillinger Gang 4. Torogo on. Thorn 1971, *P* ow Horow. so Joo. Also: Paula Harmon, Wynona Burdette, William Weaver, Charles Fitzgerald, Willie Harrison. Also ...
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... Baby Face Nelson—people turned away and rolled their eyes. When he said he and his confederates had singlehandedly “created” J. Edgar Hoover and the modern FBI, well, then he would get bitter, and people would get up and move to another ...
... Baby Face Nelson—people turned away and rolled their eyes. When he said he and his confederates had singlehandedly “created” J. Edgar Hoover and the modern FBI, well, then he would get bitter, and people would get up and move to another ...
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... Baby Face Nelson (okay, they got that right), Shelley Winters as a machine guntoting Ma Barker, a young Robert De Niro as one of her sons. To him they were all ridiculous Hollywood fantasies, fictional concoctions in an artificial world ...
... Baby Face Nelson (okay, they got that right), Shelley Winters as a machine guntoting Ma Barker, a young Robert De Niro as one of her sons. To him they were all ridiculous Hollywood fantasies, fictional concoctions in an artificial world ...
Contents
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | |
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A STAR IS BORN 10 DILLINGER AND NELSON 11 CRESCENDO 12 DEATH IN THE NORTH WOODS 13 AND ITS DEATH FOR BONNIE ... | |
PRAISE | |
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