Public Enemies_ America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI - Bryan Burrough [0]
PENGUIN BOOKS
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Chapter 1 - A PRELUDE TO WAR
Chapter 2 - A MASSACRE BY PERSONS UNKNOWN
Chapter 3 - THE COLLEGE BOYS TAKE THE FIELD
Chapter 4 - THE BAYING OF THE HOUNDS
Chapter 5 - THE KID JIMMY
Chapter 6 - THE STREETS OF CHICAGO
Chapter 7 - AMBUSHES
Chapter 8 - “AN ATTACK ON ALL WE HOLD DEAR”
Chapter 9 - A STAR IS BORN
Chapter 10 - DILLINGER AND NELSON
Chapter 11 - CRESCENDO
Chapter 12 - DEATH IN THE NORTH WOODS
Chapter 13 - “AND IT’S DEATH FOR BONNIE AND CLYDE”
Chapter 14 - NEW FACES
Chapter 15 - THE WOMAN IN ORANGE
Chapter 16 - THE SCRAMBLE
Chapter 17 - A FIELD IN OHIO AND A HIGHWAY IN ILLINOIS
Chapter 18 - THE LAST MAN STANDING
Chapter 19 - PAS DE DEUX
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
NOTES
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Acknowledgements
INDEX
Praise for Public Enemies
“Massively researched, ludicrously entertaining.”
—Time
“[A] colorful new history of the early days of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. . . . [Burrough] has written a book that brims with vivid portraiture . . . Excellent true crime.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Public Enemies [is] Bryan Burrough’s spellbinding new account of America’s first War on Crime . . . a model of narrative journalism and an often gripping read.”
—BusinessWeek
“In the telling Mr. Burrough displays a genius for historical reconstruction and an attention to detail so vivid that the reader can almost smell Bonnie and Clyde, neither of whom showed much inclination to bathe during their months sleeping in cars or open fields when they were on the run.”
—The New York Times
“Burrough’s narrative is fast-paced, his prose captivating. Drawing upon several hundred thousand FBI documents, Burrough has conducted important new research. He re-creates in vivid detail the criminals’ whereabouts, characteristics, and ignominious rise to Depression-era fame. . . . By shining a spotlight on the FBI’s birth . . . Burrough has altered our view of the early 1930s.”
—Chicago Tribune
“It is superb—readable, thorough and critical.”
—The Denver Post
“Fascinating . . . A rich and colorful cast of characters parades through the pages. . . . It is a wild and amazing story, and Burrough tells it with great gusto. Truth is often not only stranger than fiction but also a lot more interesting. Burrough’s research is careful and extraordinarily thorough. . . . Public Enemies is a significant book, and a very readable one. It is easy to toss around terms like ‘definitive,’ but this book deserves it. It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entrancing book on this subject, and on this era. Readers will not be disappointed.”
—The Washington Post
“[An] excellent new history [of] this country’s greatest crime wave . . . [Burrough] brings a historian’s touch to the material, exploding myths on every page. . . . Public Enemies is knockout nonfiction entertainment as well as serious history.”
—The New York Sun
“It is quite superb . . . with masses of new information.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“[An] engaging narrative . . . Burrough[’s] book will make excellent reading for fans of American history and true crime.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Gripping . . . [a] great tale.”
—New York Post
“Bryan Burrough . . . has written a gripping history of just two years . . . when some of the more notorious criminals in American history harvested banks from Texas to Minnesota. . . . Mr. Burrough delineates this era with as much punch—and much more insight—than any Warner Brothers gang-buster flick.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Gripping . . . Burrough expertly juggles six criminal gangs at one time, show[ing] the FBI’s dramatic restructuring and captures the dark criminal days of the Depression.”
—The Star-Ledger (Newark)
“[A] ceaselessly exciting book.”
—The Baltimore Sun
“Bryan Burrough brings [these characters] roaring to life, like a getaway car speeding away after a bank robbery in his new book Public Enemies. Never before has the American past been given