Biography removes glamour from legend of Bonnie & Clyde
Katie Mulik, Special to the Gazette
Friday, May 29, 2009
The mention of Bonnie and Clyde stirs images of glamorous gunslingers mocking the law through jailbreaks and bank robberies. Jeff Guinn’s new book “Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde” shatters that portrayal by providing a real, demystified account of the couple’s ultimately tragic lives. Guinn tells of Clyde Barrow’s and Bonnie Parker’s childhoods in the poverty-stricken slums of West Dallas. Clyde hoped to be a professional musician, and Bonnie dreamed of being a famous actress or poet. More than anything both wanted to escape their lives of destitution. Their ambitions of fortune and fame, however, resulted in crime and infamy during the Great Depression.
The pair was gunned down by law-enforcement officers 75 years ago on May 28, 1934.
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