Must have been written by Hoover

The book minimized Melvin Purvis role completely In addition it states that the FBI was responsible for setting up Bonnie and Clyde yet wasn't there The book treated Frank Hamer as an afterthought

Not very truthful

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Poorly researched

Author apparently watched movie version of Bonnie and Clyde for all his information on the subject. Makes me question the veracity of the rest of the book. Grover Gardner is the only positive.

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Interesting

Although an interesting and entertaining listen, it's hard to overlook the factual inaccuracies, mostly regarding Bonnie and Clyde. This fact leaves me wondering how many other portions are also inaccurate.

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although the narrator did a good job, the accuracy

although the narrator was good, the accuracy of events were non existent. I only finished it because I had to see what other non truths could be told.
I recommend that the author do real research before his next writings.

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So far, highly questionable scholarship

Having just finished Jeff Guinn's exhaustively researched book on Bonnie and Clyde, I was disappounted as well as concerned to find that Toland merely spewed forth the most cursory scurrilous and disproved information about them. Straight out of the mouths of period news hacks, completely irresponsible sensationalistic journalism regurgitated as fact. It makes me question the veracity of everything else Toland writes. I am returning this rather than waste my time on false accounts.

Mr. Gardner's reading is of the usual excellent quality.

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Great Book

this book covers not only John Dillinger but also other figures of the time and how they influences each other and the development of the FBI.

overall a pretty straightforward account.

while I loved the book overall, the fact that the narrator felt the need to say coopay instead of coupe drove me absolutely crazy.

A Wild Ride and then some

Published in 1963, John Toland‘s exhaustive study of America’s Public Enemy No.1, his crimes, the times, and tolls the Midwest Crime Wave took on its participants, remains, nearly sixty years on, fascinating biographical drama, deserving no less than a reading by that greatest of narrators, Grover Gardener.

informative and intriguing

research really seemed to be done and I loved the voice choice for the story

A Little Known Gem

The master narrates another master. Subject covers all the major criminals of the 30’s. Toland was such a great writer. I enjoyed every word.