Bonnie and Clyde
The Lives Behind the Legend

Others have rated this lower, but I really liked this book. A little background, I'm from/live outside of Dallas (Bonnie & Clyde's hometown) and used as their home base. In North Texas they are literally folk heroes, all the romantic images remembered, but none of the bad, none of the killing and rob......more

This is a very good biography with an affectation. I'll get to the affectation in a minute, but I want to state for the record that, really, this is a very good biography. Schneider uses primary sources, and he uses a lot of them. He extrapolates a little, but he doesn't theorize. He lets Bonnie and......more

The author lets us know that no dialogue in his extensive biography of Depression Era hoodlums Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrows was made up, that it was taken from documents and interviews. In fact, I recommend you first read the "notes" section in the back of the book where Schneider described how h......more

A pesquisa é acurada e interessante, mas o livro é mal escrito, assim, no nível de as retinas doerem. O cara usa onomatopéias quase toda vez que vai falar de tiros. Não dá, gente. Mas de qualquer maneira, para interessados no assunto, no casal, no mito, na lenda e tals, vale a leitura. Eu não sabia q......more

I'm a complete history geek, and I've read a lot about these famous lovebirds, each book only slightly different from the last, though all interesting. But in no other book have I ever seen Bonnie's poetry, which I quite enjoyed. Her last poem, her premonition of their deaths and demise, was sad yet......more