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

Type

Book

Authors

Bryan Burrough

ISBN 10

0143115863

ISBN 13

9780143115861

Tags

Organized Crime, United States, Law Enforcement

Description

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. - from Amzon

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