Nothing could have been further from the truth. Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Book of the week: Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and. Buy Go Down Together by Jeff Guinn at Mighty Ape NZ. In the minds of the public, they were cool, calculating bandits who robbed banks and killed cops with equal impunity. Jeff Guinns new biography of Bonnie and Clyde rubs the gloss from the mythos.

Thanks to newsreels, true crime magazines, and new-fangled wire services that transmitted scandalous photos of Bonnie smoking a cigar to every newspaper in the nation, the Barrow Gang members almost instantly became household names on a par with Charles Lindbergh, Jack Dempsey, and Babe Ruth. Their timing could not have been better - the Barrow Gang pulled its first heist in 1932 when most Americans, reeling from the Great Depression, were desperate for escapist entertainment. In Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, bestselling author Jeff Guinn combines exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material to tell the real tale of two kids from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame.

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