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Blumenthal, Karen

Bonnie and Clyde: The Making of a Legend

246 pp. | Viking | August, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-451-47122-2 $19.99

(2) YA In the early 1930s, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker hooked up for a two-year crime spree, cutting a wide swath through the Midwest as they eluded authorities. This well-researched biography does an admirable job of distinguishing the facts from the mythology, as well as reconstructing the timeline of the pair's criminal activities while vividly rendering the political, social, and cultural milieu of a bygone era. Timeline. Bib, ind.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2019