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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... arrest powers; if they wanted to mount a raid, they were obliged to bring along local policemen. Nor did they carry guns. This was a policy, not a law; Hoover's model was Scotland Yard. His men were investigators, not policemen. “Fact ...
... arrest powers; if they wanted to mount a raid, they were obliged to bring along local policemen. Nor did they carry guns. This was a policy, not a law; Hoover's model was Scotland Yard. His men were investigators, not policemen. “Fact ...
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... arrests, sometimes to the snickers of police. “I can remember [calling] policemen when a wanted fugitive is at ... arrest, much less fired a gun in anger. The SACs ran the investigations, Hoover peering over their shoulders, firing off ...
... arrests, sometimes to the snickers of police. “I can remember [calling] policemen when a wanted fugitive is at ... arrest, much less fired a gun in anger. The SACs ran the investigations, Hoover peering over their shoulders, firing off ...
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... a morning's work. The Newton Brothers typified the mistakeprone amateurs who ushered in the motorized age; they were arrested in the wake of their Roundout, Illinois, job. The criminal credited with introducing a new level of.
... a morning's work. The Newton Brothers typified the mistakeprone amateurs who ushered in the motorized age; they were arrested in the wake of their Roundout, Illinois, job. The criminal credited with introducing a new level of.
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... Arrested on a Kansas City golf course in 1932, he led a massive prison breakout on May 31, 1933, and went back to robbing banks. The last of the great Jazz Age yeggs was the man whose smuggled guns freed Bailey from prison, his friend ...
... Arrested on a Kansas City golf course in 1932, he led a massive prison breakout on May 31, 1933, and went back to robbing banks. The last of the great Jazz Age yeggs was the man whose smuggled guns freed Bailey from prison, his friend ...
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... arrested after robbing a bank. He jumped out a window on the train ride to prison and fled to Oklahoma. In the fall of 1931, Floyd began robbing country banks in his home state in earnest, earning his first mentions in Oklahoma ...
... arrested after robbing a bank. He jumped out a window on the train ride to prison and fled to Oklahoma. In the fall of 1931, Floyd began robbing country banks in his home state in earnest, earning his first mentions in Oklahoma ...
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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