Издания и произведения

In 2008, Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy began a ferocious exchange of letters. Public Enemies is the result. In their inimitably witty, inimitably fascinating, inimitably confrontational correspondence, they lock horns on everything, including literature, sex, politics, family, fame and even - naturally - themselves. Never dull, always provocative, brutally honest and painfully funny, this is a tussle that is impossible to ignore.

Америка 1930-х годов. Овеянная легендами, воспетая Голливудом, лихая и кровавая эпоха гангстеров. Банды Малыша Нельсона, Красавчика Флойда, Баркеров-Карписа, Автомата Келли, Бонни и Клайда терроризируют всю страну. Их слава огромна. Но никто из них не сравнится с Джоном Диллинджером - дерзким и неуловимым налетчиком, обаятельным красавцем, которого измученные Великой депрессией простые американцы воспринимали как нового Робин Гуда. Посетители кинотеатров принимались аплодировать, когда в кадрах кинохроники появлялось лицо Диллинджера. Америку охватила "диллинджеромания" - грабитель банков стал популярнее, чем президент Рузвельт. Книга…

In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned them into legends in their own - generally quite brief - lifetimes. As they tore across state lines, mocking the police and amassing fortunes, the gangsters had no idea that in Washington their nemesis was forming: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. "Public…

The astonishing true story of America's first and greatest "War on Crime."In "Public Enemies," Bryan Burrough strips away a thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and an assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In 1933, police jurisdictions ended at state lines, the FBI was in its infancy, and fast cars and machine guns were easily available. It was a great time to be a bank robber. On…