Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
The Penguin Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine; As New / Fine: As New. Item #5125
ISBN: 9781594200212
First Edition, First Printing with full number line signed by author Bryan Burrough at title page. Unclipped dust jacket in Fine condition and protected by mylar cover. Book edition also in Fine condition with no signs of wear or use.
Burroughs wrote in Vanity Fair that "'Public Enemies' was a real labor of love, the most fun I've ever had researching and writing a book. It tells the story of not only Dillinger, the charismatic Midwestern bank robber, but of a half dozen criminal gangs pursued by J. Edgar Hoover's fledgling FBI....Defeating them all created the modern FBI."
Burrough details the controversial stories of John Dilinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, the Barker-Karpis Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde alongside the evolution of the FBI from 1933-1936. The book was turned into a film starring Johnny Depp. Burrough was a background extra during the scene depicting Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater.
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