With the brisk pacing of a novel, Guinn's richly detailed history will leave readers breathless until the final hail of bullets. Bonnie, who fancied herself a poet, wrote, “Some day they'll go down together,” and they did, in a Louisiana ambush led by famed ex–Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. In 1930, he met 19-year-old Bonnie Parker, and during the next four years Clyde, Bonnie and the ever-revolving members of the Barrow Gang robbed banks and armories all over the South, murdering at least seven people. Master criminal John Dillinger dismissed Clyde and Bonnie as ‘a couple of kids stealing grocery money.’ Within a couple of years, four notorious outlaws would be dead. Clyde Barrow, a scrawny kid in poverty-stricken West Dallasin the late 1920s, stole chickens before moving on to cars, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Buck. Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn Pretty Boy Floyd told his wife not to help them when they were on the run and desperate. particularly competent crooks”) without undermining the mystique of the Depression-era gunslingers. ), in this intensely readable account, deromanticizes two of America's most notorious outlaws (they were “never. Journalist Guinn ( Our Land Before We Die Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde Jeff Guinn May 23, 2009, will be the 75th anniversary of the bloody deaths of the Depression's dynamic crime duo.
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