{"product_id":"9780143115861","title":"Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34","description":"Burrough (a special correspondent for Vanity Fair) 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. His examination of the recently release FBI files reveals a story vastly different from the largely mythical narrative promoted by J. Edgar Hoover or the romantic portrayals of the gangs by Hollywood. 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. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR  ","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016209121520,"sku":"9780143115861","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143115861_p0.jpg?v=1763777934","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143115861","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}