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Book Pick: Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend – Metro US

Book Pick: Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend

Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
Author: Paul Schneider
Publisher: Henry Holt
Price: $30.50 (Hardcover)

In this new non-fiction examination, author Paul Schneider probes the lives of the real-life depression-era outlaw lovers glamourized in the 1967 Arthur Penn film Bonnie and Clyde. Using primary-source interviews and thorough research, matched with previously classified FBI reports, Schneider tracks Bonnie and Clyde from the start of their criminal career together, as they continued to outwit authorities, until their sensational shoot-out deaths. Schneider tells the famed fugitives’ story with a fast pace underscored by fact.