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The Vendetta
Special Agent Melvin Purvis, John Dillinger, and Hoover's FBI in the Age of Gangsters
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In The Vendetta, author Alston Purvis recounts the story of his father, Melvin Purvis, the iconic G-man and public hero made famous by his remarkable sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression—John Dillinger; Pretty Boy Floyd, and Baby Face Nelson. Purvis’s successes led FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover to grow increasingly jealous, to the point where he vowed to bring down Purvis. Hoover smeared Purvis’s reputation, and tried to erase his name from all records of the FBI's greatest triumphs. This book sets the record straight, and provides a grippingly authentic new telling of the gangster era, seen from the perspective of the pursuers.
PublicAffairs; May 2009
400 pages; ISBN 9780786746668
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400 pages; ISBN 9780786746668
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Subject categories
- Academic > Sociology > Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology > Criminal justice administration
- Academic > Public Affairs > Criminal justice administration
- History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History > United States > 20th Century
- History > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
- History > Military > Vietnam War
- Biography & Autobiography > Historical
- Biography & Autobiography > Political
- Social Science > Criminology
- History > Africa
- History > Australia & Oceania
- History > Far East
- History > World
- History > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
- History > Great Britain
- History > Europe
- True Crime
ISBNs
0786746661
9780786746668
9781586487416

