6/22/2023 0 Comments Public enemies by bryan burrough![]() ![]() ![]() Readers learn the truth about numerous criminals of the time. Painstakingly researched by author Bryan Burrough and incredibly detailed, Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 is much more than another John Dillinger story. Before my biscuits and gravy arrived, I read the brief history of the lodge and the failed raid printed on my placemat.īut now I’ve read the book, which includes a bit more information than the placemat, and it is phenomenal. Then late last summer I had breakfast at Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish, Wisconsin, site of a bungled FBI raid on Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and others. I've been planning on seeing Public Enemies ever since it was announced the John Dillinger movie would be filmed in Wisconsin, and historical sites, including one in my hometown, were scouted as possible locations. ![]() Which one gives gangsters the bigger reward? The movie is to the book like your little brother’s piggy bank is to the Federal Reserve. Why even try? I mean really! To say “the book is better” is like saying “Dillinger robbed banks.” No kidding. Now I’ve seen the movie and I must, to be honest and fair, revise the previous statement. I wrote the following statement before I saw the movie, but nevertheless, at that time I naively believed my uneducated opinion to be true: ![]()
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