Public Enemies Book Review
Public Enemies
People magazine gave it four stars and critics choice. The Washington Post says, “A wild and amazing story, and Burrough tells it with great gusto... It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entertaining book on the subject, and on this era.” Newsweek proclaims, “A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field.” All of these nationwide publications have high praise for Public Enemies, America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough. Public Enemies is a publication of the Penguin Group with a copyright of 2004. In the authors notes, Bryan Burrough stated, “This is a book I always suspected I would attempt someday.” He proceeds to tell that his interest in this subject began in his childhood. Bryan says the first stories he can remember hearing were the ones spun by his grandfather, who was a police man in Arkansas during the time, about the fugitives Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Bryan’s interest grew even more when he learned that Clyde murdered the great-uncle of one my his childhood friends and also when he watched a documentary about Ma Barker and the Barker gang. Thus began his research in the wave of crime during the 1930s. He talks about his research into the FBI’s War on Crime from 1933-1936 and came across six major criminal factions: John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, the Barker-Karpis Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde. Bryan”s goal in writing this book is to strip away the lies J. Edgar Hoover and his team and tell the real story. Public Enemies explains the rise and fall of all six of these criminal factions. It also examines how the FBI came to be how we see it today, instead of a bungling group of armatures. We follow J. Edgar Hoover in his struggles of reforming the FBI and keeping his job as director. The story begins in Washington, D.C. Saturday, March 4, 1933, with the inauguration of Franklin Delano
People magazine gave it four stars and critics choice. The Washington Post says, “A wild and amazing story, and Burrough tells it with great gusto... It is hard to imagine a more careful, complete and entertaining book on the subject, and on this era.” Newsweek proclaims, “A rollicking yarn whose prose bounces across the page like a getaway car through a wheat field.” All of these nationwide publications have high praise for Public Enemies, America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough. Public Enemies is a publication of the Penguin Group with a copyright of 2004. In the authors notes, Bryan Burrough stated, “This is a book I always suspected I would attempt someday.” He proceeds to tell that his interest in this subject began in his childhood. Bryan says the first stories he can remember hearing were the ones spun by his grandfather, who was a police man in Arkansas during the time, about the fugitives Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Bryan’s interest grew even more when he learned that Clyde murdered the great-uncle of one my his childhood friends and also when he watched a documentary about Ma Barker and the Barker gang. Thus began his research in the wave of crime during the 1930s. He talks about his research into the FBI’s War on Crime from 1933-1936 and came across six major criminal factions: John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, the Barker-Karpis Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde. Bryan”s goal in writing this book is to strip away the lies J. Edgar Hoover and his team and tell the real story. Public Enemies explains the rise and fall of all six of these criminal factions. It also examines how the FBI came to be how we see it today, instead of a bungling group of armatures. We follow J. Edgar Hoover in his struggles of reforming the FBI and keeping his job as director. The story begins in Washington, D.C. Saturday, March 4, 1933, with the inauguration of Franklin Delano