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Public Enemies : America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Public Enemies America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI 193334
Author: Bryan Burrough
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icon...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780143035374
ISBN-10: 0143035371
Publication Date: 6/28/2005
Pages: 624
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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Burrough cuts through the hollywood fantasy to tell the real story of the Feds 'war on crime" from 1933-35. The rise to national prominence of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI into a highly sophistictaed national police force, the hunt for John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, V8 Fords, blazing tommyguns, it's all here.


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