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Public Enemies : America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough (2009, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100143115863
ISBN-139780143115861
eBay Product ID (ePID)71623404
Product Key Features
Book TitlePublic Enemies : America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Number of Pages624 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Law Enforcement, General, Organized Crime, Criminology
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, True Crime, Social Science, History
AuthorBryan Burrough
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews[A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version.” —The Wall Street Journal It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era.” —The Washington Post A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field.” —Newsweek Enemies is 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, A, " [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." - 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, " [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." - The Wall Street Journal " It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era." - The Washington Post " A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field." - Newsweek " Enemies is 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 , A, [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version.” —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, " [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." - 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, " [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." -The Wall Street Journal " It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on the subject, and on this era." -The Washington Post " A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field." -Newsweek " Enemies is 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, A, " [A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version." -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
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Grade ToUP
Dewey Decimal364.97309043
Edition DescriptionMovie Tie-In,Media tie-in
SynopsisComing 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberHV6783.B85 2009
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- Jan 26, 2018
Astonishing back-story of the rise of today's FBI
This is not your Warren Beatty / Faye Dunaway / Hollywood vision of criminals such as Bonnie & Clyde. The book also sheds a very bright light on the early tactics of the FBI --- and on J. Edgar Hoover, who, today, would be considered by many to be a criminal mastermind.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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