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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 |  | Author: Bryan Burrough
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 68811
Media: Paperback
Edition: Mti Rep
Pages: 624
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0143115863
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.97309043
EAN: 9780143115861
ASIN: 0143115863
Publication Date: April 29, 2009
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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, 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 overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.
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 Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 March 4, 2010
R. Schultz (Springfield, MO United States)
Amazing read that keeps you literally on the edge of your seat throughout. Well written, easy to comprehend and exciting as well. What I love about the book is that a great deal of it takes place in the area where I live (southwest Missouri) or where I often travel (midwest). With the beauty of the internet today I found that I've driven past the graves of Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Ma Barker and had no idea. It's also very cool to be able to literally view pictures and videos, like the Kunkelman film from Mason City IA, which makes the book even that more real. Kudos to the author for a job well done. Highly recommend this title.
Objective And Interesting January 17, 2010
Crosslands (Maryland USA)
Mr. Bryan Burrough has written a very thorough, well written, and objective book about the John Dellinger era in American history of crime and justice. Perhaps the most informative part of Mr. Burrough's work concerns the ease of getting away with any type of crime in the 1920s and early 1930s. There were no really significant units of federal law enforcement. Bank robbers and other law breakers had merely to go over the state line to be safe from prosecution. And the newly developed automobiles and improved other forms of transportation made this task far easier. Of course this changed at least somewhat with J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Mr. Burrough very effectively tells this story of the rise of the FBI and the downfall of John Dellinger and other high profile robbers and kidnappers in the early 1930s. Mr. Burrough does not spare anyone in his very objective account. He narrates the sometime killings of John Dellinger and other robbers, the often arrogance and bullying of J. Edgar Hoover, the often incompetence of Melvin Purvis, and the deficiencies of others. For particularly those with an interest in the 1930s gangsters this book is an invaluable, readable, and objective work.
Great Book! January 11, 2010
Bob (Phoenix)
I picked this book up at the local video store over the holidays. Prior to this book, all the criminals of the era had been treated as standalone stories and you would have never known they were all out committing crimes at the same time. The book did not glorify the criminals or the police/FBI, but gave an honest review of them. It was a great read, the descriptions of Bonnie & Clyde's death and the death of Dillinger himself remain in my mind. Some reviewers complained that the chronological order used by the author confused them with the skipping around, but in real life, that's the way it was happening. I did not find it confusing at all. Highly recommended!
A Great Read!!! December 29, 2009
Toons (Sydney Australia)
I saw the movie first and was intrigued. I had just received my Kindle and decided to get the actual book. I was absolutely riveted. Coming from Australia you get to hear about all the stuff that happened in the US but to actually read it and imagine what it was like.....awesome. I read it in two days ( my husband said I was obsessed!!) I would without hesitation recommend this book to anyone to read. It was fascinating and compelling. To think that all of this actually happened makes it that much more riveting. I loved it and would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone to read. Enjoy!!! :)
Very thorough story November 14, 2009
C. Fischer (WI United States)
This author has definitely done his research. I absolutely couldn't put this book down. It's very well written and really opens your eyes to that part of history.
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