A review by unsweettea
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 by Bryan Burrough

4.0

I have to admit, I picked this up because it had Johnny Depp on the cover. But nonetheless, it is really good. It's very factual and well researched; he gives footnotes, end notes, and has a bibliographic essay. But most of all, if he's not sure of something he tells you, or if two people have differing stories he tells you that. You feel like you're really getting as much of the true story as anyone can know at this point. Which is why the movie Public Enemies was such a disappointment. It's totally Hollywood-ized; the timeline is all wrong, events are made up, events are just represented entirely incorrectly. Oh well. It was still entertaining.