Bonnie and Clyde
“Blumenthal’s excellently documented account would be difficult listening were it not for Zackman’s ability to keep some distance between the often gruesome story and listeners…A less accomplished narrator might have reduced this to a recitation of grisly facts, but Zackman keeps the action moving and listeners engaged.”
Booklist (audio review)
The 2019 Spirit of Texas Middle School Reading List selection
Bonnie and Clyde may be the most notorious-and celebrated-outlaw couple America has ever known. This is the true story of how they got that way.
Bonnie and Clyde-we've been on a first name basis with them for almost a hundred years. Immortalized in movies, songs, and pop-culture references, they are remembered mostly for their storied romance and tragic deaths. But what was life really like for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in the early 1930s? How did two dirt-poor teens from west Texas morph from vicious outlaws to legendary couple? And why?
Award-winning author Karen Blumenthal devoted months to tracing the footsteps of Bonnie and Clyde, unearthing new information, and debunking many persistent myths. The result is an impeccably researched, breathtaking nonfiction tale of love, car chases, kidnappings, and murder set against the backdrop of the Great Depression.
Praise