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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... Pretty Boy Floyd, 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 ...
... Pretty Boy Floyd, 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 ...
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... Pretty Boy Floyd The Barrow Gang The BarkerKarpis Gang. Also: Special Agents Charles Winstead, Clarence Hurt, Jerry Campbell, Tom McDade, Ray Suran, Ed Guinane. Doris Rogers, secretary. Also: Vi Mathias, Frances Nash, Kathryn Kelly. The ...
... Pretty Boy Floyd The Barrow Gang The BarkerKarpis Gang. Also: Special Agents Charles Winstead, Clarence Hurt, Jerry Campbell, Tom McDade, Ray Suran, Ed Guinane. Doris Rogers, secretary. Also: Vi Mathias, Frances Nash, Kathryn Kelly. The ...
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... Pretty Boy Floyd The Barrow Gang The BarkerKarpis Gang The 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 ...
... Pretty Boy Floyd The Barrow Gang The BarkerKarpis Gang The 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 ...
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... Pretty Boy” Floyd, and his old protégé 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 ...
... Pretty Boy” Floyd, and his old protégé 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 ...
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... Pretty Boy Floyd was a good yegg. Bonnie and Clyde wanted to be. And today? Today he and all his peers were cartoon characters, caricatures in one bad gangster movie after another. You could see them on the late show doing all sorts of ...
... Pretty Boy Floyd was a good yegg. Bonnie and Clyde wanted to be. And today? Today he and all his peers were cartoon characters, caricatures in one bad gangster movie after another. You could see them on the late show doing all sorts of ...
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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