Jeff Guinn strips away the glamour.to reveal the desperadoes as they really were. ""Go Down Together" is a rollicking read, an astonishing story of perseverance in the face of hopelessness, and a perverse tale of two lovers whom only death could part. Much of the material has never been made public before." - Bob Simmons, "The Seattle Times" "Go Down Together" is the product of remarkable research through letters, diaries, memoirs, police and FBI reports, and interviews with family members. Jeff Guinn relates Bonnie and Clyde's heyday of robbery and killing, their remarkable flight from justice and their grisly ending in such careful detail that you might wonder if he's making it up. "Forget what you've heard or read (or seen in the laughable 1967 movie) about a glamorous young couple pulling off brilliant bank robberies, outsmarting and killing their pursuers. Guinn, a Texas-based journalist, has researched their lives and times with the kind of thoroughness generally reserved for politicians and captains of industry." - Allen Barra, "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" ""Go Down Together" is a richly detailed dual biography. It's a zeitgeist becoming chillingly familiar today, and that gives this book a wallop." - Jackie Loohauis-Bennett, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
Guinn succeeds marvelously in re-creating the spirit of the times, the desperation of unemployment and financial ruin.
Intense but bs the gloss from the mythos and replaces it with a patina of true grit.
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