Public Enemies
America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
By Bryan Burrough
(Penguin (Non-Classics), Paperback, 9780143115861, 624pp.)
Publication Date: April 29, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Compact Disc
Categories: Organized Crime, Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement, United States - 20th Century/Depression
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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.
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.
" [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
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