Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34Penguin, 2005 M06 28 - 640 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. |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
A Prelude to War Spring 1933 | 5 |
A Massacre by Persons Unknown June 8 to June 15 1933 | 19 |
The College Boys Take the Field June 17 to July 22 1933 | 51 |
The Baying of the Hounds July 22 to August 25 1933 | 71 |
The Kid Jimmy August 18 to September 25 1933 | 98 |
The Streets of Chicago October 12 to November 20 1933 | 135 |
Ambushes November 20 to December 31 1933 | 162 |
Death in the North Woods April 10 to April 23 1934 | 292 |
And Its Death for Bonnie and Clyde April 23 to May 23 1934 | 323 |
New Faces May 24 to June 30 1934 | 362 |
The Woman in Orange July 1 to July 27 1934 | 388 |
The Scramble July 23 to September 12 1934 | 417 |
A Field in Ohio and a Highway in Illinois September 18 | 446 |
The Last Man Standing December 3 1934 to January 20 1935 | 484 |
Pas de Deux January 1935 Until | 515 |
An Attack on All We Hold Dear January 2 to January 28 1934 | 183 |
A Star Is Born January 30 to March 2 1934 | 206 |
Dillinger and Nelson March 3 to March 29 1934 | 234 |
Crescendo March 30 to April 10 1934 | 267 |
Bibliographical Essay | 553 |
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