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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI 193334
Author: Bryan Burrough
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780143115861
ISBN-10: 0143115863
Publication Date: 5/26/2009
Pages: 624
Edition: Mti
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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Burrough cuts through the hollywood fantasy to tell the real story of the Feds 'war on crime" from 1933-35. The rise to national prominence of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI into a highly sophistictaed national police force, the hunt for John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, V8 Fords, blazing tommyguns, it's all here.


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