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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... Barker. I wondered whether the Barker Gang had been in operation before or after Bonnie and Clyde. I walked upstairs to my office and hopped on the Internet, ran a search, and was surprised to find that both gangs had been at large in ...
... Barker. I wondered whether the Barker Gang had been in operation before or after Bonnie and Clyde. I walked upstairs to my office and hopped on the Internet, ran a search, and was surprised to find that both gangs had been at large in ...
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... Barker's criminal genius—his remains the book by which all others must be ... Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Kansas City Massacre. Taken together, they ... Barker from prison, as well as confirmation of an overlooked Dillinger robbery ...
... Barker's criminal genius—his remains the book by which all others must be ... Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Kansas City Massacre. Taken together, they ... Barker from prison, as well as confirmation of an overlooked Dillinger robbery ...
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... Barker Gang gave before his death. Several FBI agents also wrote unpublished manuscripts I was able to review. I've listed all my sources of information in notes at the back of the book. Please keep one thing in mind as you read: This ...
... Barker Gang gave before his death. Several FBI agents also wrote unpublished manuscripts I was able to review. I've listed all my sources of information in notes at the back of the book. Please keep one thing in mind as you read: This ...
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... Gang. What is known is that around 1917, while in a Utah prison, he ... Barker brothers. Arrested on a Kansas City golf course in 1932, he led a ... Barker Gang. All three of these men—Eddie Bentz, Harvey Bailey, and Frank Nash—were ...
... Gang. What is known is that around 1917, while in a Utah prison, he ... Barker brothers. Arrested on a Kansas City golf course in 1932, he led a ... Barker Gang. All three of these men—Eddie Bentz, Harvey Bailey, and Frank Nash—were ...
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... Barker Gang, or as Karpis liked to call it, the BarkerKarpis Gang. His partners, the diminutive brothers Fred and Arthur “Dock” Barker, were from Tulsa. Fred was twentynine, fivefeetfour, lean, feral, and menacing, with three gold teeth ...
... Barker Gang, or as Karpis liked to call it, the BarkerKarpis Gang. His partners, the diminutive brothers Fred and Arthur “Dock” Barker, were from Tulsa. Fred was twentynine, fivefeetfour, lean, feral, and menacing, with three gold teeth ...
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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