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Description edit
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 ... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- East Chicago
- St. Paul
- Indianapolis
- Dallas
- Kansas City Massacre
- Oklahoma City
- Washington
- Texas
- Little Bohemia
- Ohio
- Wisconsin
- New York
- Cleveland
- Urschel
- Toledo
- Illinois
- Miami
- Missouri
- Florida
- San Francisco
- Iowa
- Minnesota
- Arkansas
- Huntington
- Youngstown
- Havana
- Tulsa
- Mooresville
- Wanetka
- Memphis
- Leavenworth
- America
- Weatherford
- Fort Worth
- Michigan City
- Nevada
- Louisiana
- San Antonio
- Lake Geneva
- Shreveport
- Jordan
- North Side
- Detroit
- Mississippi
First Sentence edit
It was a morning as bleak as the times.
Table of Contents edit
Author's Note
Cast of Characters
PROLOGUE
i. a prelude to war, spring 1933
ii. a massacre by persons unknown, june 8 to june 15 1933
iii. the college boys take the field
iv. the baying of the hounds
v. the kid jimmy
vi. the streets of chicago
vii. ambushes
viii. an attack on all we hold dear
ix. a star is born
x. Dillinger and Nelson
xi. crescendo
xii. death in the north woods
xiii. and it's death for Bonnie and Clyde
xiv. new faces
xv. the woman in orange
xvi. the scramble
xvii. a field in ohio and a highway in illinois
xviii. the last man standing
xix. pas de deux
EPILOGUE
Bibliographal Essay
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Bryan Burrough (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 364.97309043
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century › Depression
- Books › Professional & Technical › Law › Criminal Law › Law Enforcement
- Books › Nonfiction › True Accounts › Organized Crime
- Books › Law › Criminal Law › Law Enforcement
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