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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... Street Journal, he is a threetime winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife Marla and their two sons. AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME WAVE and the BIRTH of the FBI,
... Street Journal, he is a threetime winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. He lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife Marla and their two sons. AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME WAVE and the BIRTH of the FBI,
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... street corners, fingering their rifles. “The atmosphere,” wrote Arthur Krock in the New York Times, “was comparable to that which might be found in a beleaguered capital in wartime.” The analogy was apt. It did feel like war. People ...
... street corners, fingering their rifles. “The atmosphere,” wrote Arthur Krock in the New York Times, “was comparable to that which might be found in a beleaguered capital in wartime.” The analogy was apt. It did feel like war. People ...
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... Street bank and made off with $245,000. He was caught and sentenced to a fiveyear term in Sing Sing. Smith's brainstorm led to an early advance in U.S. bank security— the advent of safes—in 1834. Until the Civil War, armed robberies of ...
... Street bank and made off with $245,000. He was caught and sentenced to a fiveyear term in Sing Sing. Smith's brainstorm led to an early advance in U.S. bank security— the advent of safes—in 1834. Until the Civil War, armed robberies of ...
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... streets of Minneapolis like some medieval European castle. Festooned with flags, its eightstory brick facade had been ... street outside the brewery, a twentyfouryearold man in a chauffeur's cap sat in a black Ford sedan, watching the ...
... streets of Minneapolis like some medieval European castle. Festooned with flags, its eightstory brick facade had been ... street outside the brewery, a twentyfouryearold man in a chauffeur's cap sat in a black Ford sedan, watching the ...
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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