Showing Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough

Paperback. Pub Date: 08 2008 Pages: 640 Publisher: Penguin; Film TIE-in ed In the summer of 1933 an Amazing Group of the Chancers misfits and Psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression fast cars and cheap guns. these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde. Dillinger. Machine Gun Kelly. Baby Face Nelson. the Barker gang. Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned them into legends in their own - generally quite ief - lifetimes. As they tore across state lines. mocking the police and amassing fortunes. the gangsters had no idea that in Washington their nemesis was forming: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Public Enemies is the sensational story of the outlaws whose exploits became folklore. and the savage. myth-making response of those who hunted them down.