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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... girlfriend Bonnie Parker were driving through the Texas Panhandle, heading to a meeting with Clyde's brother Buck at a bridge on the Oklahoma border. With them was Clyde's gofer, a pimply Dallas teenager named W. D. Jones. At first ...
... girlfriend Bonnie Parker were driving through the Texas Panhandle, heading to a meeting with Clyde's brother Buck at a bridge on the Oklahoma border. With them was Clyde's gofer, a pimply Dallas teenager named W. D. Jones. At first ...
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... girlfriend gave chase, forcing Clyde to take them hostage. After an allday drive (which later served as a memorable scene in the 1967 movie), Clyde let the couple go. In the confusion, the homesick W.D. disappeared. Clyde and Bonnie ...
... girlfriend gave chase, forcing Clyde to take them hostage. After an allday drive (which later served as a memorable scene in the 1967 movie), Clyde let the couple go. In the confusion, the homesick W.D. disappeared. Clyde and Bonnie ...
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... girlfriend. At 10:17 Frances Nash reached Miller at his house on Edgevale Road. Miller already knew Nash had been arrested; a bootlegger friend, Frank “Fritz” Mulloy, had tracked Miller down on the golf course, relaying the message left ...
... girlfriend. At 10:17 Frances Nash reached Miller at his house on Edgevale Road. Miller already knew Nash had been arrested; a bootlegger friend, Frank “Fritz” Mulloy, had tracked Miller down on the golf course, relaying the message left ...
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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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