Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios "ludicrously entertaining" (Time), Public Enemies is the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, and an 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, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men secured the FBI's rise to power. |
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| Title | Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 |
| Author | Bryan Burrough |
| Contributor | Overdrive Inc |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1101030585, 9781101030585 |
| Length | 592 pages |
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