Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend by Paul Schneider
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Ala "Being John Malkovich", "Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend", this book should be entitle "Being Clyde Barrow". The author's continual imposition of a second person narrative on Clyde's supposed thoughts ("But you think...") merely gets in the way of a rich telling based, apparently, on stitching together many primary sources. In spite, Clyde comes across as a dangerous psycopath instead of any stripe of folk hero. More often than robbing banks, the Barrow Gang took to stealing Average Joe's car and breaking into the safes of small businesses. I especially liked learning the level of organized crime at work, including clipping telephone wires and sharing safe houses with Pretty Boy Flody, and how Barrow's crime spree went back to his early youth as Clyde "Schoolboy" Barrow.
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