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.
Summary
"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
-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
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