Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
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The astonishing true story of America's first and greatest "War on Crime."In Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover 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 1933, police jurisdictions ended at state lines, the FBI was in its infancy, and fast cars and machine guns were easily available. It was a great time to be a bank robber. On hand were a motley crew of criminal masterminds, sociopaths, romantics, and cretins. Bryan Burrough has unearthed an extraordinary amount of new material on all the major figures involved -- revealing many fascinating interconnections in the vast underworld ecosystem that stretched from Texas up to Minnesota. But the real-life... The New York Times - Mark Costello Burrough, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of Barbarians at the Gate, has written a book that brims with vivid portraiture. His Dillinger is haunting, a figure out of the fiction of Richard Ford, a man of meanness and sorrow and deep rural pessimism … As the story of the F.B.I.'s emergence from the 10-ring circus that was 1934, Public Enemies is excellent true crime with all the strengths and limitations this implies.
Author's NotexiCast of CharactersxvPrologue11A Prelude to War, Spring 193352A Massacre by Persons Unknown, June 8 to June 15, 1933193The College Boys Take the Field, June 17 to July 22, 1933514The Baying of the Hounds, July 22 to August 25, 1933715The Kid Jimmy, August 18 to September 25, 1933986The Streets of Chicago, October 12 to November 20, 19331357Ambushes, November 20 to December 31, 19331628"An Attack on All We Hold Dear," January 2 to January 28, 19341839A Star Is Born, January 30 to March 2, 193420610Dillinger and Nelson, March 3 to March 29, 193423411Crescendo, March 30 to April 10, 193426712Death in the North Woods, April 10 to April 23, 193429213"And It's Death for Bonnie and Clyde," April 23 to May 23, 193432314New Faces, May 24 to June 30, 193436215The Woman in Orange, July 1 to July 27, 193438816The Scramble, July 23 to September 12, 193441717A Field in Ohio and a Highway in Illinois, September 18 to November 27, 193444618The Last Man Standing, December 3, 1934, to January 20, 193548419Pas de Deux, January 1935 Until...515Epilogue543Bibliographical Essay553Notes556Selected Bibliography567Acknowledgments571Index573
