false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170481084m/57882.jpg 57882 9 In <I>Public Enemies</I>, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story&#151;for the first time&#151;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 icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, 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. <P> 56390 2004 Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 total:425|5:129|4:199|3:79|2:13|1:5| 425 1709 867 127 0 0 false false Mon Aug 03 03:07:31 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 03:07:31 -0700 2009 http://www.theleadmiamibeach.com/2009/07...

Public Enemies

The Film Opens This Weekend, But Have You Read the Book?

By John Hood

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