Title

Public enemies: America's greatest crime wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-34.

Description

The story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar Hoover, 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. Author Burrough strips away the myths to reveal a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld, and shows how Hoover's G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.--From publisher description.

Identifier

1211638

1594200211

Creator

Burrough, Bryan

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2004

Program air date: September 19, 2004

Publisher

Penguin Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front papers and half-title page concerning the birth of the FBI, the Karpis-Barker gang, the John Dillinger gang, Baby Face Nelson, Melvin Purvis, the FBI's War on Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover. Examples include: "Cause according to Hoover: widespread deterioration of family values - parents who did not teach children right from wrong." Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. Lamb asks: Who was the man in Torremolinois, Spain? The last living gangster?" "What was Attorney General Homer Cummings's relationship with J. Edgar Hoover?" "What was the most important FBI case at the time?"

Subject

"United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History."

"Crime--United States--History--20th century."

"Criminals--United States--History--20th century."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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