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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... pulled up outside a Haag's Drugstore in Indianapolis. Inside, Shaw headed toward the main cash register while Dillinger took the smaller one at the soda fountain. He stuck his gun at the three employees. When they stared into his face ...
... pulled up outside a Haag's Drugstore in Indianapolis. Inside, Shaw headed toward the main cash register while Dillinger took the smaller one at the soda fountain. He stuck his gun at the three employees. When they stared into his face ...
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... pulled himself to his feet and smelled the gasoline. He realized the car could explode. Just then two farmers, Steve Pritchard and Lonzo Cartwright, scuttled down the slope. They had seen the wreck from Pritchard's porch above the river ...
... pulled himself to his feet and smelled the gasoline. He realized the car could explode. Just then two farmers, Steve Pritchard and Lonzo Cartwright, scuttled down the slope. They had seen the wreck from Pritchard's porch above the river ...
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... pulled up at the Twin Cities Tourist Camp in Fort Smith. After Blanche registered, Clyde carried Bonnie to a bed. She whimpered for her mother. Clyde drove into town alone and found a doctor named Walter Eberle. He told Eberle that his ...
... pulled up at the Twin Cities Tourist Camp in Fort Smith. After Blanche registered, Clyde carried Bonnie to a bed. She whimpered for her mother. Clyde drove into town alone and found a doctor named Walter Eberle. He told Eberle that his ...
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... pulled the Hudson up to the curb, and Hamm was shoved into the backseat. Dock Barker followed, slipped a pillowcase over Hamm's head, and pushed him down onto the floorboards. “I don't like to do this,” Fitzgerald said to Hamm. “But I'm ...
... pulled the Hudson up to the curb, and Hamm was shoved into the backseat. Dock Barker followed, slipped a pillowcase over Hamm's head, and pushed him down onto the floorboards. “I don't like to do this,” Fitzgerald said to Hamm. “But I'm ...
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... pulled up beside a twostory house in the northwest Chicago suburb of Bensonville. It was owned by the local postmaster, a friend of Ziegler's. They guided Hamm into a bedroom whose window had been boarded shut. Karpis gave him some ...
... pulled up beside a twostory house in the northwest Chicago suburb of Bensonville. It was owned by the local postmaster, a friend of Ziegler's. They guided Hamm into a bedroom whose window had been boarded shut. Karpis gave him some ...
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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