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Public Enemies (edit title/settings)

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

by Bryan Burrough (Author) (edit contributors)

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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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It was a morning as bleak as the times.

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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

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  1. Bryan Burrough (Author)

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