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"Public Enemies": The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave

 
Public Enemies : The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave   Author: Bryan Burrough
By Penguin
Average Customer Rating: Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5Average rating of 4.5/5

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141037943
ISBN: 0141037946
Label: Penguin
Manufacturer: Penguin
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: 2008-08-28
Publisher: Penguin
Studio: Penguin
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Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5Average rating of 4/5 Tells it like it might well have been, 2006-02-03
I'm just finishing work on a book about police corruption in early twentieth century New York, and right now Burroughs' book is the one I most wish I had written. He tells a familiar story - the book's about John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis and their demise at the hands of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - but does so in superlative detail. Burroughs' most impressive achievement is to parse nearly a million pages of government files into a rollicking but reliable narrative: it's reputable history, but it achieves the elusive goal of making the reader feel like a participant in the story. And, astonishingly, the author gets through all 592 pages without once mentioning Hoover's fabled predilection for nylons and frocks.

Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5 Amazing book! a MUST for those interested in 1930s USA crimewave, 2007-04-30
I borrowed this book from my local library, read it from cover to cover and it turned out to be one of those books I had to buy a copy of because I knew Id want to read it every year or two. Its an amazing book which clearly has been a labour of love and has been written with the help of a mass of research. It deals with all the well known criminals of that era (machine gun kelly, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson etc etc) and it interweaves their storys as it progresses through that era detailing all their crimes, escapes from the law and it also paints a bigger picture of how the FBI had to be formed to combat the problem. Its such an addictive read, very enjoyable and the sort of book that evokes the atmosphere of the period in which its set. Its a factual book of course and not done in a silly narrative way...putting words into their mouths, turning it into a novel for example...the author was wise enough to see the tales of these people were fascinating enough and gives it to the reader straight.

Brilliant book, the finest with regards to this subject matter!