Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
S-n&Sc-r | 2010 | ISBN: 1416557075 | EPUB/MOBI | 843 KB/1.66 MB
Journalist Guinn (Our Land Before We Die), in this intensely readable account, deromanticizes two of Americas most notorious outlaws (they were never particularly competent crooks) without undermining the mystique of the Depression-era gunslingers. Clyde Barrow, a scrawny kid in poverty-stricken West Dallas in the late 1920s, stole chickens before moving on to cars, following in the footsteps of his older brother, Buck. 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. Bonnie, who fancied herself a poet, wrote, Some day theyll go down together, and they did, in a Louisiana ambush led by famed exTexas Ranger Frank Hamer. With the brisk pacing of a novel, Guinns richly detailed history will leave readers breathless until the final hail of bullets.
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