Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of

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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hooverâ€™s FBI to tell the full storyâ€”for the first timeâ€”of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the 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 and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hooverâ€™s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBIâ€™s rise to power.

Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34