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In the Depression Era, Gangsters' Spree Prompted Rise of the "G-men" |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Michael Hedges |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2005 |
| Size: 947 Words, 5,984 Characters |
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PUBLIC ENEMIES: AMERICA'S GREATEST CRIME WAVE AND THE BIRTH OF THE FBI, 1933-34
By Bryan Burrough
Penguin Press, $27.95, 592 pages, illus.
It all seems almost quaint these days, when terrorists have killed thousands and threatened even worse horrors with weapons of mass destruction. But seventy years ago, a collection of colorfully nicknamed banditos like Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson so terrorized our grandparents' generation that the public demanded something be done.
It was the so-called war on crime of the 1930s, touched off in 1933 with a heartland shootout that became k...
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...or one writing about the period to ignore them. That aside, readers interested in the rise of federal government power and control during the Roosevelt era will find this an entertaining angle on that subject. And for those of us who feel a sordid attraction to the lifestyles of the doomed and dangerous, Burrough provides a fresh banquet of information.
© 2004 News World Communications Inc.
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