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Public enemies: america's greatest crime wave and the birth of the fbi, 1933-34

By Bryan , Burrough

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group US;Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN
9781101032749, 110103274X
ASIN
B001UUJ62M
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
2 MB (1893712 bytes)
Pages
624\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:20:36
History;Nonfiction;Crime;True Crime;Mystery;North

Description

InPublic 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.

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