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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... Kansas City and Paul Maccabee in St. Paul, the Bureau has now made public all its files on Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson, the Barker Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Kansas City Massacre. Taken together, they comprise nearly one million ...
... Kansas City and Paul Maccabee in St. Paul, the Bureau has now made public all its files on Dillinger, Floyd, Nelson, the Barker Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Kansas City Massacre. Taken together, they comprise nearly one million ...
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... city's notorious Green Lantern tavern, including Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, and the Barker brothers. Arrested on a Kansas City ... MASSACRE BY PERSONS UNKNOWN June 8 to June.
... city's notorious Green Lantern tavern, including Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin Karpis, and the Barker brothers. Arrested on a Kansas City ... MASSACRE BY PERSONS UNKNOWN June 8 to June.
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... MASSACRE. BY. PERSONS. UNKNOWN. June 8 to June 15, 1933 From a newsman's point ... town of Cromwell. Hudiberg walked into the warm evening air and stretched. As his ... Kansas City and tried to go straight but was constantly rousted by police ...
... MASSACRE. BY. PERSONS. UNKNOWN. June 8 to June 15, 1933 From a newsman's point ... town of Cromwell. Hudiberg walked into the warm evening air and stretched. As his ... Kansas City and tried to go straight but was constantly rousted by police ...
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... town the night before; it was all anyone was talking about. The group strode across the plaza to Agent Caffrey's ... Kansas City Massacre. At the time, it was the seconddeadliest murder of lawenforcement officers in American history ...
... town the night before; it was all anyone was talking about. The group strode across the plaza to Agent Caffrey's ... Kansas City Massacre. At the time, it was the seconddeadliest murder of lawenforcement officers in American history ...
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... KANSAS CITY MASSACRE We were a bunch of greenhorns who had no idea what we were doing. —FORMER SPECIAL AGENT KENNETH McINTIRE, 1983. Kansas. City. Saturday,. June. 17. 7:20. A.M.. “That one's alive! He's alive!” The haze of gunsmoke still ...
... KANSAS CITY MASSACRE We were a bunch of greenhorns who had no idea what we were doing. —FORMER SPECIAL AGENT KENNETH McINTIRE, 1983. Kansas. City. Saturday,. June. 17. 7:20. A.M.. “That one's alive! He's alive!” The haze of gunsmoke still ...
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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