Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780143035374
- ISBN-10: 0143035371
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publish Date: June 2005
- Dimensions: 8.48 x 5.92 x 1.11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.13 pounds
- Page Count: 640
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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