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In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof 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 Hoovers G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBIs rise to power.
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Crime, Criminals, History, Nonfiction, True Crime, United States, United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Histoire, Criminalité, Criminels, Kriminalität, Gründung, États-Unis. Federal Bureau of Investigation, États-Unis, USA Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA, United states, federal bureau of investigation, Crime, united states, Criminals, united statesPlaces
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
June 28, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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0143035371 9780143035374
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Public enemies: America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-34
2004, Penguin Press
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1594200211 9781594200212
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