How long does it take to read Public Enemies?
Public Enemies by Bryan Burrough takes about 11 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2004. 624 pages, about 171,600 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoovers FBI to tell the full storyfor the first timeof the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoovers G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBIs rise to power.
Subjects: Crime, Criminals, History, Nonfiction, True Crime, United States
