"Don't Shoot, G-Men!": The FBI Crime War, 1933-1939

by Michael Newton

Overview

Between 1933 and 1939, the FBI pursued an aggressive, highly publicized nationwide campaign against a succession of Depression era "public enemies," including John Dillinger, George "Baby Face" Nelson, Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd, George "Machine Gun Kelly" Barnes, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and the Ma Barker Gang.

Bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover's successes in this crusade made him the hero of law and order in the public mind. This historical analysis reveals the agency's often illegal tactics, including torture, frame-ups, and summary executions--later expanded throughout Hoover's 48-year reign in Washington, D.C., and exposed only after his death (some say murder) in 1972.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476684406
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	10/07/2021
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.58(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

The late Michael Newton, an award-winning author of numerous books on topics ranging from cryptozoology to civil rights and organized crime, lived in Indiana.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Author’s Note viii
Acknowledgments
Depression-Era Gangs
Preface
 1. “A bureaucratic bastard”
 2. Public Enemies
 3. “Get ’Em Up! Up!”
 4. Cops and Robbers
 5. Open Season
 6. Trials and Errors
 7. Shoot on Sight
 8. Wanted Dead
 9. Melvin Who?
10. Old Creepy
11. Mopping Up
12. Scorched Earth
13. Redacting History
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index