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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... night wasn't over. A half hour later Dillinger showed Parker where to pull up in front of a City Foods supermarket. Robbing the store had been Shaw's idea. What he neglected to tell Dillinger was that he had robbed it once before. The ...
... night wasn't over. A half hour later Dillinger showed Parker where to pull up in front of a City Foods supermarket. Robbing the store had been Shaw's idea. What he neglected to tell Dillinger was that he had robbed it once before. The ...
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... night. The boys were a study in contrasts. Where Buck was a lethargic, monosyllabic figure who talked little and ... night after a foot chase in the town of Denton. Clyde met Bonnie Parker one night in January 1930, when he showed up at ...
... night. The boys were a study in contrasts. Where Buck was a lethargic, monosyllabic figure who talked little and ... night after a foot chase in the town of Denton. Clyde met Bonnie Parker one night in January 1930, when he showed up at ...
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... night in 1928. “Not a darn thing to do. Don't know a darn thing.” And the day after that: “Haven't been anywhere this week. Why don't something happen?”1 The attraction between Bonnie and Clyde was immediate, but the romance was ...
... night in 1928. “Not a darn thing to do. Don't know a darn thing.” And the day after that: “Haven't been anywhere this week. Why don't something happen?”1 The attraction between Bonnie and Clyde was immediate, but the romance was ...
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... night in the Bog, taking a motorcycle cop hostage in Springfield, Missouri, when he stopped Clyde for speeding. Their notoriety, however, was limited to Dallas, where their crimes were frontpage news. Outside Texas they remained all but ...
... night in the Bog, taking a motorcycle cop hostage in Springfield, Missouri, when he stopped Clyde for speeding. Their notoriety, however, was limited to Dallas, where their crimes were frontpage news. Outside Texas they remained all but ...
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... night he drove the length of Oklahoma, reaching Arkansas around dawn. Bonnie deteriorated, pitching and moaning in ... night patrol when he spotted the car heading east. He hesitated because he didn't recognize Billie. By the time he ...
... night he drove the length of Oklahoma, reaching Arkansas around dawn. Bonnie deteriorated, pitching and moaning in ... night patrol when he spotted the car heading east. He hesitated because he didn't recognize Billie. By the time he ...
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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