Public Enemies
America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Written by Bryan Burrough
Narrated by Richard Davidson
Burrough examines the stories of John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, the Barker-Karpis Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde as a single narrative history of the FBI’s “War on Crime” from 1933 to 1936. For Burrough, the story is about the bureaucratic evolution of the FBI from a bungling group of amateurs to a professional crime-fighting organization and his central aim is to reclaim the history for the individual agents involved. In 2009, the book was made into a movie starring Johnny Depp.
Note from Uploader: This book is incredible. The Johnny Depp movie is a very small part of this book. I recommend going to your library to put your hands on the print book; the first several pages contain maps of the affected areas to give you a better idea of the scope of the crimes.
