they weren’t heroic…

Book review:

Go Down Together:

The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

by Jeff Guinn (b1951)

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2009

467 pages

Newspaper coverage in the early 1930s turned Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow into nationwide celebrities. Movies and books have perpetuated the carelessly positive news coverage, and the often fictional heroic antics of the crime duo.

The matter-of-fact treatment in Go Down Together makes the unvarnished reality more clear: Bonnie and Clyde were wacky, violent, and vicious criminals who killed 13 people and spent their 21-month crime spree on the run, mostly living “…the mundane, routine Barrow Gang misery of camping in cars and dining on cans of cold beans.”

They were killed in an ambush on May 23, 1934, in Louisiana. Several officers of the law fired about 160 bullets at them in less than 20 seconds—neither Bonnie nor Clyde fired a single shot.

Nothing about them makes a pretty picture.

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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young

…too much death (book review)

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and Joseph L. Galloway

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