Bryan Burrough

In this astonishing true-life account of America's first, and greatest, 'war on crime', bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away a 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.Public Enemies brings the machine gunners and bank robbers back from the dead to tell of the two-year battle between young hoover and the motley crew of criminal masterminds 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 draws on a remarkable amount of fresh material, pulling all the strands together to reveal an intricate web of interconnections within tha vast American underworld - and showing how Hoover's G-men overcame their nearly fumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.
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ISBN
9780143115861
Autores
Bryan Burrough
Idiomas
Inglés
Año de publicación
2009
Editorial
Penguin Books
Categoría
Ensayo
Géneros
Ficción, Historia, General & Literary Fiction, Crime
Edades recomendadas
Jóvenes adultos, Adultos
Páginas
624
Peso
0.508