""Go Down Together" casts a brilliant new light, not just on two
hapless criminals but on the creation and then the devouring of the
first American media darlings. Jeff Guinn is a great storyteller."
-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of "Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's
Life"
""Go Down Together" is a richly detailed dual biography.... 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 rollicking read, an astonishing story of
perseverance in the face of hopelessness, and a perverse tale of
two lovers whom only death could part.... Jeff Guinn strips away
the glamour...to reveal the desperadoes as they really were.... His
exhaustively researched chronicle of their misadventures seems
definitive." -- Mark Dunkelman, "The Providence Journal"
""Go Down Together" is thorough, precise, beautifully written, and
compulsively readable. It shines a brilliant lamp on two very
unusual people, and, a bonus, it richly illuminates middle America
between the wars. Completely fascinating." -- Robert B. Parker,
author of the Spenser novels
"An embracing biography of the Barrow Gang that draws us in like an
old wanted poster.... Not only does Guinn maintain control of the
mayhem.... the author manages to humanize the characters...while
inserting them into the historical context of the times." -- Steve
Bennett, "San Antonio Express-News"
"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.... 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. He
isn't. "Go Down Together" is the product of remarkable research
through letters, diaries, memoirs, police and FBI reports, and
interviews with family members. Much of the material has never been
made public before." -- Bob Simmons, "The Seattle Times"
"Guinn cuts through the sex and gunsmoke surrounding the gangster
love story of Bonnie and Clyde, and he reveals a couple of kids
from the wrong side of the river who were anything but the sharpest
gangsters to roam the countryside. His gritty chronicle is a
welcome corrective to the affectionate portrait of the couple
played by Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty in Arthur Penn's 1967
movie, "Bonnie and Clyde", which told us much more about the rise
of the Hollywood antihero than it did about the real-life
criminals." -- J. Lynn Lunsford, "The Wall Street Journal"
"The true story of Bonnie and Clyde.... Intense but
fascinating...rubs the gloss from the mythos and replaces it with a
patina of true grit.... Guinn succeeds marvelously in re-creating
the spirit of the times, the desperation of unemployment and
financial ruin. It's a zeitgeist becoming chillingly familiar
today, and that gives this book a wallop." -- Jackie
Loohauis-Bennett, "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel"
"This intensely readable account de-romanticizes two of America's
most notorious outlaws without undermining the mystique of the
Depression-era gunslingers.... With the brisk pacing of a novel,
Guinn's richly detailed history will leave readers breathless until
the final hail of bullets." -- "Publishers Weekly" (starred
review)
"This is the best Bonnie and Clyde book I've ever seen.
Three-quarters of a century after their deaths, and following a
multitude of contradictory accounts by surviving participants, "Go
Down Together" still manages to lift the veil and uncover
surprising new stories and details and fresh insights into both the
famous outlaw lovers and the team of manhunters who brought them
down. An eye-opener that will set historians and crime buffs alike
talking for a long time to come." -- Rick Mattix, coauthor of "The
Complete Public Enemy Almanac "
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