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Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

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ISBN-10: 0143115863

ISBN-13: 9780143115861

Edition: 2009 (Movie Tie-In)

Authors: Bryan Burrough

List price: $16.00
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Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios “ ludicrously entertaining” (Time), Public Enemiesis the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover, 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 overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Bryan Burrough was born in 1961 in Temple, Texas. Burrough is a New York Times best-selling author, special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and former Wall Street Journal reporter. Burrough graduated from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism in 1983. While in college, he was a reporter for the Columbia Missourian and interned at the Waco Tribune-Herald and the Wall Street Journal's Dallas Bureau. Burrough's bestselling book, Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34, is scheduled to be released as a movie in 2009. Burrough is a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. He lives in…