Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the Fbi, 1933-34 - Hardcover

Burrough, Bryan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200211 ISBN 13: 9781594200212

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2004

Synopsis

An analysis of Depression-era bank robbery and its most notorious figures recounts the stories of such individuals as Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, and Baby Face Nelson, discussing the factors that influenced the period's crime rates, the formation and early work of the FBI, and the contributions of J. Edgar Hoover. 125,000 first printing.

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Review:

Brims with vivid portraiture ... Excellent true crime. ("The New York Times Book Review") An amazingly detailed true-life thriller... ("Entertainment Weekly", A) It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era. ("The Washington Post") [A] riveting true-crime tale... Fascinating... The real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version. ("The Wall Street Journal") Massively researched, ludicrously entertaining.("Time ") Spellbinding... A model of narrative journalism and [a] gripping read. ("BusinessWeek")

"Brims with vivid portraiture ... Excellent true crime." --The New York Times Book Review

"An amazingly detailed true-life thriller..." --Entertainment Weekly

"It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era." --The Washington Post

"[A] riveting true-crime tale... Fascinating... The real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." --The Wall Street Journal

"Spellbinding... A model of narrative journalism and [a] gripping read." --BusinessWeek

-Brims with vivid portraiture ... Excellent true crime.- --The New York Times Book Review

-An amazingly detailed true-life thriller...- --Entertainment Weekly

-It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era.- --The Washington Post

-[A] riveting true-crime tale... Fascinating... The real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version.- --The Wall Street Journal

-Spellbinding... A model of narrative journalism and [a] gripping read.- --BusinessWeek

From the Back Cover:

Entrancing ... definitive ... a wild and amazing story' Washington Post

In 1933 a crime wave blazed across America. Fuelled by cheap liquor and fast cars, gangs of chancers, bank robbers, gunslingers and their molls cut a murderous, cash-snatching dash through the US - and became
legends. Among them were homicidal Baby Face Nelson, outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, cranky hillbilly Ma Barker and, most deadly of all, the suave gentleman criminal John Dillinger.

This is the breakneck story of America's most wanted, and their nemesis: J. Edgar Hoover and his strong-arm law enforcers, the agents of the FBI. Using shocking secret files and eyewitness accounts, Public Enemies reveals the facts about the crime spree that shook America.

'Seriously exciting ... crackles and pops with dialogue so outrageous that you suspect a dozen scriptwriters have worked on it, but every word is true' Spectator

'Excellent true crime ... brims with vivid portraiture' The New York Times

'It makes a good tale, and Burroughs tells it well, in all its horrible detail' Literary Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1594200211
• ISBN 13: 9781594200212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 592