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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... 11. Kilog of to highway parrower. April 1934 inclus" 10. Bank roor), February 1934 | 13. Shooting of Bonnie and Clyde, May 23, 1934 | W: Eastham 8. Prior raid, lawmary 1934 Hollision is Austin" | Bally fäCE |E|SDI - - i – Mirilowish |
... 11. Kilog of to highway parrower. April 1934 inclus" 10. Bank roor), February 1934 | 13. Shooting of Bonnie and Clyde, May 23, 1934 | W: Eastham 8. Prior raid, lawmary 1934 Hollision is Austin" | Bally fäCE |E|SDI - - i – Mirilowish |
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... 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 finders” was the word his aides used. The ...
... 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 finders” was the word his aides used. The ...
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... raids on Communists in thirtythree cities, which led to the arrest of more than three thousand people. He lobbied for and received his new job as assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation in August 1921. A Senate probe of the ...
... raids on Communists in thirtythree cities, which led to the arrest of more than three thousand people. He lobbied for and received his new job as assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation in August 1921. A Senate probe of the ...
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... raid in Liberty, Missouri, was carried out by a ragtag band of outofwork Confederate irregulars led by the brothers Frank and Jesse James. The James Gang's string of robberies over the next fifteen years was glamorized by the press ...
... raid in Liberty, Missouri, was carried out by a ragtag band of outofwork Confederate irregulars led by the brothers Frank and Jesse James. The James Gang's string of robberies over the next fifteen years was glamorized by the press ...
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... raid of the 1920s, the robbery of cashladen messengers outside the Denver Mint in 1922. He was so successful he retired for a time, opening a chain of gas stations and car washes on Chicago's South Side, until he lost almost everything ...
... raid of the 1920s, the robbery of cashladen messengers outside the Denver Mint in 1922. He was so successful he retired for a time, opening a chain of gas stations and car washes on Chicago's South Side, until he lost almost everything ...
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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