Overview
Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios ludicrously entertaining ( Time ), Public Enemies is the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI, and an 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, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men secured the FBI's rise to power.
Full Product Details
Author: Bryan Burrough
Publisher: Penguin Books
Imprint: Penguin Books
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.567kg
ISBN: 9780143115861
ISBN 10: 0143115863
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 01 April 2009
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version. <br> - The Wall Street Journal <br><br> A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field. <br>- Newsweek <br><br> An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly, and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses. <br> - Entertainment Weekly <br><br>
[A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version. <br> - The Wall Street Journal <br> A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field. <br>- Newsweek <br> An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly, and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses. <br> - Entertainment Weekly
[A] riveting true-crime tale . . . fascinating . . . the real story, it turns out, is much better than the Hollywood version. - The Wall Street Journal A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field. - Newsweek An amazingly detailed true-life thriller that puts us on a stakeout alongside the feds, inside the banks while bullets fly, and inevitably, next to the criminals' bloody corpses. - Entertainment Weekly
Author Information
Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of three previous books. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, he is a three-time winner of the John Hancock Award for excellence in financial journalism. Burrough lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his wife and their two sons.
