The Public Enemy

Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110103274X
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Enemies written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover’s G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI’s rise to power.

Author : David E. Ruth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226732185
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Public Enemy written by David E. Ruth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth shows that the media gangster was less a reflection of reality than a projection created from Americans' values, concerns, and ideas about what would sell.

Author : Tim Grierson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1783233907
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Enemy: Inside the Terrordome written by Tim Grierson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Enemy are an American hip hop group, formed in New York in 1982, known for their politically charged lyrics and criticism of the American media. This account focuses on the highs and lows of their career, provides an overview of their album releases, and examines what the future holds for them and hip hop as a whole.

Author : John R. Hibbing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521482998
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congress as Public Enemy written by John R. Hibbing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book describes and explains the American people's alleged hatred of Congress and political institutions.

Author : Lonnie T. Brown
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609170
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending the Public's Enemy written by Lonnie T. Brown and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What led a former United States Attorney General to become one of the world's most notorious defenders of the despised? Defending the Public's Enemy examines Clark's enigmatic life and career in a quest to answer this perplexing question. The culmination of ten years of research and interviews, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. explores how Clark evolved from our government's chief lawyer to a strident advocate for some of America's most vilified enemies. Clark's early career was enmeshed with seminally important people and events of the 1960s: Martin Luther King, Jr., Watts Riots, Selma-to-Montgomery March, Black Panthers, Vietnam. As a government insider, he worked to secure the civil rights of black Americans, resisting persistent, racist calls for more law and order. However, upon entering the private sector, Clark seemingly changed, morphing into the government's adversary by aligning with a mystifying array of demonized clients—among them, alleged terrorists, reputed Nazi war criminals, and brutal dictators, including Saddam Hussein. Is Clark a man of character and integrity, committed to ensuring his government's adherence to the ideals of justice and fairness, or is he a professional antagonist, anti-American and reflexively contrarian to the core? The provocative life chronicled in Defending the Public's Enemy is emblematic of the contradictions at the heart of American political history, and society's ambivalent relationship with dissenters and outliers, as well as those who defend them.

Author : Harvey Thew
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299084646
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public Enemy written by Harvey Thew and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Enemy, a 1931 Warner Brothers gangster classic, is easily remembered as the movie in which James Cagney used Mae Clarke's nose as a grapefruit grinder. As Cagney recalls, it was just about the first time that "a woman had been treated like a broad on the screen, instead of like a delicate flower." The ambivalence toward women is just one of the many stylistic contradictions that make The Public Enemy worth studying, not only for its intrinsic merits but also as a creative expression bending under the constraints of censorship.

Author : Kiki Swinson
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 1496729773
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Enemy #1 written by Kiki Swinson and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A former journalist with a knack for unraveling dirty secrets, Khloé Mercer figures if she's going to risk her life, she might as well make big money as a private investigator. But this reckless newbie needs a major case to make her name - and really show she can handle Norfolk, Virginia's toughest streets ... When a narcotics detective's widow needs someone to investigate her disgraced husband's so-called suicide, Khloé jumps at the lucrative fee - and the clues that the Norfolk Police Department is rotten from top to bottom. And with formidable backup from her ex-felon uncle, she turns the city upside-down to uncover the truth ... But Khloé's cage-rattling tactics and high-wire strategies threaten both the cops and the city's brutal underworld alike. Now, with her life in the crosshairs and no one she can trust, she'll find that building a reputation comes with a price she may not survive to pay ..." --Publisher's description.

Author : Russell Myrie
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847676111
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Rhyme For The Sake of Riddlin' written by Russell Myrie and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Enemy are one of the greatest hip-hop acts of all time. Exploding out of Long Island, New York in the early 1980s, their firebrand lyrical assault, the Bomb Squad’s innovative production techniques, and their unmistakeable live performances gave them a formidable reputation. They terrified the establishment, and have continued to blaze a trail over a twenty year period up until the present day. Today, they are more autonomous and as determined as ever, still touring and finding more ingenious ways of distributing their music. Russell Myrie has had unprecedented access to the group, conducting extensive interviews with Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff, the Shocklee brothers, and many others who form part of their legacy. He tells the stories behind the making of seminal albums such as their debut Yo! Bum Rush the Show, the breakthrough It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back, and multi-million selling Fear of a Black Planet. He tackles Professor Griff's alleged anti-semitic remarks which caused massive controversy in the late eighties, the complexities of the group’s relationship with the Nation of Islam, their huge crossover appeal with the alternative audience in the early nineties, and the strange circumstances of Flavor Flav’s re-emergence as a Reality TV Star since the turn of the millennium.

Author : John Beineke
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0871953536
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hoosier Public Enemy written by John Beineke and published by Indiana Historical Society. This book was released on 2014 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the bleak days of the Great Depression, news of economic hardship often took a backseat to articles on the exploits of an outlaw from Indiana—John Dillinger. For a period of fourteen months during 1933 and 1934 Dillinger became the most famous bandit in American history, and no criminal since has matched him for his celebrity and notoriety. Dillinger won public attention not only for his robberies, but his many escapes from the law. The escapes he made from jails or “tight spots,” when it seemed law officials had him cornered, became the stuff of legends. While the public would never admit that they wanted the “bad guy” to win, many could not help but root for the man who appeared to be an underdog. Although his crime wave took place in the last century, the name Dillinger has never left the public imagination

Author : Bill Ayers
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0807061107
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Enemy written by Bill Ayers and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to Fugitive Days, Ayers charts his life after the Weather Underground, when he becomes the GOP’s flaunted “domestic terrorist,” a “public enemy.” Labeled a "domestic terrorist" by the McCain campaign in 2008 and used by the radical right in an attempt to castigate Obama for "pallin' around with terrorists," Bill Ayers is in fact a dedicated teacher, father, and social justice advocate with a sharp memory and even sharper wit. Public Enemy tells his story from the moment he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, emerged from years on the run and rebuilt their lives as public figures, often celebrated for their community work and much hated by the radical right. In the face of defamation by conservative media, including a multimillion-dollar campaign aimed solely at demonizing Ayers, and in spite of frequent death threats, Bill and Bernardine stay true to their core beliefs in the power of protest, demonstration, and deep commitment. Ayers reveals how he has navigated the challenges and triumphs of this public life with steadfastness and a dash of good humor—from the red carpet at the Oscars, to prison vigils and airports (where he is often detained and where he finally "confesses" that he did write Dreams from My Father), and ultimately on the ground at Grant Park in 2008 and again in 2012.