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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 Paperback - 2009

by Bryan Burrough

Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture fromUniversal Studios

" ludicrously entertaining" (Time), Public Enemies is the story of themost spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the youngJ. Edgar Hoover, his FBI and an assortment of criminals who became national icons: JohnDillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, andthe Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections withinthe vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men overcame their earlyfumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.


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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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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
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Movie Tie-In
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-04-29
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780143115861 / 0143115863
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 1.08 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 2.74 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Criminals - United States - History - 20th
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.973

Media reviews

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

"A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field."
-Newsweek

"An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly, and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses."
-Entertainment Weekly

About the author

Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of three previous books. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. Burrough lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife and their two sons.
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