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

In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story--for the first time--of 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 Hoover's G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.

Author: Bryan Burrough
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/28/2005
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.92w x 1.11d
ISBN13: 9780143035374
ISBN10: 0143035371
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- Political Science | Law Enforcement
- True Crime | Organized Crime

About the Author
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of three previous books. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. Burrough lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife and their two sons.