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In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to tell the full story—for the first time—of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the 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 an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI's rise to power.

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Packed with fascinating information.......2007-07-29

Burrough takes you beyond the comic book version of gangsters and G-men in this detailed look at a unique period of American history. All sorts of interesting tidbits flow out of the pages, all of it based upon solid research. Burrough has said he wanted to avoid any 'speculative' history where the author attempts to interpret events or else posit some theory based upon flimsy evidence. I appreciate that as I've had too many experiences of authors interjecting their theories into history books and rendering the book somewhat ludicrous.

That said, in some places the book does get weighted down under an avalanche of information. In those places I had to slow down in order to follow the story line. However, I didn't find that too big of an issue....not even enough to deduct a star off my rating.

Overall, an excellent read which will give you a comprehensive understanding of the gangster era.

Public Enemies.......2007-07-15

How anyone can find fault with this book is beyond me. Mr. Burroughs is to be commended for a job well done. As a crime aficionado myself who is, unfortunately, usually disappointed in the vast majority of so-called "true crime" stories on the market today, I found "Public Enemies" to be a breath of fresh air in that it was fast-paced, meticulously researched, and exciting. Definitely a keeper in my library!

Audio Abridgement Is a Tough Sell.......2007-03-27

Whenever you produce an abridged version of any book, there is a risk that you'll edit out things which end up being not just relevant, but even critical to full enjoyment of the work.

That's pretty much the case here.

There is so much encyclopedic material in the full book that the abridgement loses way too many references. The result is, unfortunately, that the devoted reader misses pieces which are really crucial to understanding the huge picture of crime and criminals being painted here.

"Pentimento." I'd recommend skipping the abridged audio version and reading the whole book instead.

Very Disappointing.......2007-03-20

I'm never turned off by large, well researched non-fiction books (and rarely write Amazon reviews), but Public Enemies, like the author's other work, Barbarians at the Gate, is unreadable to those without a very special interest in the subject matter primarily due to the overwhelming number of "characters." Mr. Burroughs thoughtfully includes a "cast of characters" in both books, but the books contain so many people that it's impossible to read the texts straight through without constantly doubling back to the cast, taking notes or re-reading sections...reminding me of my college textbook days. What is strange is that although I am a big fan of non-fiction true crime/law enforcement AND business/finance books, I could not get past the 150 page point on either book because the tomes contain so many people/places/events and each person/place/event is given so little time...it felt like reading an encyclopedia and not a book. Mr. Burroughs admits that the bulk of Public Enemies is taken straight from the FBI's own case files...six file cabinets worth. However, the book reads as if Mr. Burroughs went through each file and extracted all the interesting tidbits, then arranged them chronologically with a law enforcement timeline software package like Case Map and BAM...there's the book...a chronological summary of FBI case files with a *wink wink* "look how so-and-so was connected to so-and-so and how so-and-so knew the same people as so-and-so" thrown in. I really wanted to like this book and Barbarians at the Gate, but I plan on giving both books away and never reading another Bryan Burrough book. For a fantastic book on bank robberies, check out Ballad of the Whisky Robber. And The Informant is a great example of how an author can make dry FBI case facts jump of the page...another 5 star read.

crime history classic........2007-02-12

a fascinating book about a fascinating time in america. dillinger, baby face nelson, pretty boy floyd, the barker family, machine gun kelly, bonnie and clyde, j edgar hooever, and melvin purvis; all are brought vividly to life on the pages of this terrific book. it's long, but sustained my interest every page of the way. i know of no better book that covers the history of crime in america in the early 1930's than this one. go ahead and read it. you have my approval.

Public Enemies : America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

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Public Enemies : America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough
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Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough
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The seven volumes of Six Sigma and Beyond give readers an in-depth look at how to successfully achieve the minimum amount of non-conformances in their organization. Implementing this program will uncover potential improvements and bring all resources together to identify, measure, analyze, improve, and control the process. These volumes provide the statistical techniques to go beyond theory to real-world applications and take quality improvement to the next level. The author discusses the foundations of quality and progressively moves into the Six Sigma methodology, closing the series with an implementation strategy that will help improve the process and the financial status of any organization.

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Developing Genius: Getting the Most Out of Group Decision-Making

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Developing Genius: Getting the Most Out of Group Decision-Making
John E. Kolstoe
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J. Kenneth Boggs
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Now needed more than ever!.......2004-10-26

The USA needs to be able to work with and engage the world and develop a worldwide Team USA. Unfortunately, the American secret dominating metaphor is the Marlboro Man leading us to operate on our own mostly with an attitude of "Bring'em On".

This book shows the way out of this situtation and I welcome your contact at my web site http://jkennethboggs.home.mindspring.com

We need ALL of us and we need to work together constructively. Whatchasay America?

Ken Boggs

A Personal Viewpoint.......2002-11-30

To many people, teams are best represented by the National Football League and competition. This is not the metaphor this book addresses. Rather this is the first book to get under the skin of teams and translate that insight into specific skills that can be taught and exercised by any individual.

Here now is the first opportunity to convert any team into one that can out perform other individuals and groups. Here is the new arena for competitive growth.

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High-Powered Teams: A Guide to Getting the Most Out of Your Student Team
Merida Johns
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A step-by-step guide for managing student teams. This manual is developed to assist college students who want to learn how to manage teams effectively. The material and strategies presented are based on the author's twenty-year experience in teaching students how to work in and manage multi-disciplinary teams. Instructor's manual available.

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This book offers a unique guide to China's long economic history and to the embryonic development of Chinese capitalism. It makes a classic work of Chinese economic history from top Chinese scholars available, in abridged form, for the first time in English. The immense historic sweep runs from the Late Ming period through the early mid Qing to the time of the Opium wars. In each period there are detailed surveys of sectors of the economy, both industrial and agricultural, and of the technological development and methods used, in addition to overviews of the nature of economic change in China and the retarded development of capitalism prior to the nineteenth century.

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Chinese Capitalism, 1522-1840. (book review): An article from: The Australian Journal of Politics and History
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This collection of best practice examples of business teaching should inspire and inform those involved in the improvement of teaching in higher education. Assembled by the Learning and Teaching Support Network the examples are drawn from institutions throughout the UK including: The Open University, Sheffield Hallam, City University, St Andrews, Brighton, De Montford, Liverpool John Moores, Glasgow, Leeds Met and Plymouth. Individual case studies focus on everything from the use of action learning, resource based learning, using technology and peer assessment to the development of a knowledge management system.

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Reporting research that provides an invaluable tool for utilizing individual capability, it makes it possible for talent pool development programs to effectively meet the organization's future human resource requirements.

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The key to understanding human behaviour.......2005-09-21

Once you understand and assimilate the discoveries about human capability that Jaques & Cason presents in this book a whole new world of understanding people will open up. And from that, there is no return. Your understanding of behaviour, past, present and future, hasn't been added to as adding just one more piece. You will instead have the foundation without which no people-puzzles may be completed.

Fine Conclusion of Series.......2004-11-01

Elliott Jaques devised a system for analyzing executive ability based upon an individual's time horizon--the maximum period of time in the future toward which his/her work activities were aimed in their performance. He reached this conclusion during extensive, longitudinal, empirical studies in England. His series of books reflect his elaboration and extension of this finding. He worked, for a time, with Dr. Owen Jacobs of the U.S. Army (and then the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, ICAF). Jaques prior, groundbreaking book, "Requisite Organization" is more pictorial than "Executive Leadership" or this volume. While the present work may be oriented more towards human resource personnel, it is also useful to practicing executives. After reading it, I bought a copy (and of "Executive Leadership" too) and loaned it to my boss! I wish more bosses would read Jaques' works--and carefully at that. The charts provided are engaging and thought-provoking. The more extensive, "Executive Leadership" preceded this book in sequence. Jaques wrote "Human Capability" with is wife and publisher: Kathryn Cason. It is a fine sequel to "Executive Leadership", adding some additional perspectives on the ways people perceive and think and it completes the time-horizon charts that Jaques developed over time and published in this fine series. These books are most strongly recommended for serious students and practitioners of management as well as human resource professionals. They go far in attempting to move management into management science.

Outstanding, intuitive, and well worth reading.......1999-10-15

Dr. Jaques is re-writing our understanding of the human mind and how to use it best. Forget IQ, Meyers-Briggs, and the other flim-flam out there. This book offers us the hope that we can work to our potential without overload, balance our task output and spiritual needs at work, and organize our companies as effectively as possible, without sacrificing our humanity. So far every criticism I've seen leveled at Jaques has proven baseless. High level writing may put off some, but this is great research work.

Ideal for those concerned with developing human capital........1999-03-25

This book presents the results of a three year study by Jaques and Cason, providing a major breakthrough in understanding human capability, intelligence, and development. An outcome of this study is further development of managerial practices to match people with roles and develop training and development programs. This is a highly interesting and informative volume that will be of significant value to all HR professionals whose agenda includes HRD and the cultivation of an organization's human capital. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates and HRconsultant.com InfoCenter.

A Must For Managers and Educators........1997-09-28

The Fundation for understand Mental Processing Capability and Handling Complexity. Very simple and powerfull application in everyday situations. Like 'THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE' [Peter M. Senge] this is a great book about HUMAN PRESENT AND FUTURE possibilities ... JUST READ THIS!

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The advances of the WWW have dramatically increased the need for efficient and flexible mechanisms to provide integration methods for multiple information sources, which has caused a need for a careful integration of the concepts and systems. It is of great importance for issues and concerns to be identified and handled, in order to ensure the continuous building of systems for ever-changing technology and business requirements. Web-Enabled Systems Integration: Practices and Challenges consists of a collection of quality research papers that describe original ideas and insights associated with the task of integration.

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