Public Enemies [Film Tie-in] by Bryan Burrough

Public Enemies [Film Tie-in] by Bryan Burrough

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In the summer of 1933 a group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. This book features the story of these outlaws whose exploits became folklore.

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Public Enemies [Film Tie-in] by Bryan Burrough

In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned them into legends in their own - generally quite brief - lifetimes. As they tore across state lines, mocking the police and amassing fortunes, the gangsters had no idea that in Washington their nemesis was forming: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Public Enemies is the sensational story of the outlaws whose exploits became folklore, and the savage, myth-making response of those who hunted them down.
Bryan Burrough is the author of Dragonfly: Nasa and the Crisis Aboard Mir, Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra and (with John Helyar) Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. He lives in New Jersey.
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ISBN 13 9780141037943
ISBN 10 0141037946
Title Public Enemies [Film Tie-in]
Author Bryan Burrough
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 2008-08-28
Number of pages 640
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.