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- ISBN: 0805086722
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112509529
- Release Date: March 31, 2009
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Paul Schneider (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Bonnie and Clyde" by Paul Schneider to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Bonnie and Clyde"Browse more products related to "Paul Schneider"Publisher's noteThe flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood--now the true story of Bonnie and Clyde is told in the lovers' own voices, with verisimilitude and drama to match Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," Strictly nonfiction--no dialogue or other material has been made up--and set in the dirt-poor Texas landscape that spawned the star-crossed outlaws, Paul Schneider's brilliantly researched and dramatically crafted tale begins with a daring jailbreak and ends with an ambush and shoot-out that consigns their bullet-riddled bodies to the crumpled front seat of a hopped-up getaway car. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's relationship was, at the core, a toxic combination of infatuation blended with an instinct for going too far too fast. The poetry-writing petite Bonnie and her gun-crazy lover drove lawmen wild. Despite their best efforts the duo kept up their exploits, slipping the noose every single, damned time. That is until the weight of their infamy in four states caught up with them in the famous ambush that literally blasted away their years of live-action rampage in seconds. Without glamorizing the killers or vilifying the cops, the book, alive with action and high-level entertainment, provides a complete picture of America's most famous outlaw couple and the culture that created them. AnnotationThe tale of Bonnie and Clyde has been simmered, stirred, mixed, and shifted over time, with various versions popping up in newspapers, novels, ballads, comic books, and movies. But every telling of the story has the same ending--a hail of bullets that forever silenced the only two people who knew the truth behind the legend of their illicit adventures. In this unique history, Paul Schneider provides an inside account of the notorious saga of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as it may have been experienced by the two primary participants. While Schneider does not go the route of popular historian Erik Larson by inventing dialogue and imagining unverifiable events, he does try to get inside the minds of Barrow and Parker by relying on primary sources, such as letters and interviews with their families and fellow felons, along with a deeper analysis of the social atmosphere of the time to fill in the context of their crime spree. If You Enjoy "Bonnie and Clyde (Book)", May We Also Recommend:
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