![]() ![]() Guinn, a journalist based in Texas, has researched their life and times with the kind of thoroughness generally reserved for politicians and captains of industry. Without their violent demise and Arthur Penn's film, it's doubtful that their fame would have lasted long enough to inspire two fine books on the 75th anniversary of their death: Jeff Guinn's "Go Down Together" and Paul Schneider's "Bonnie and Clyde." ![]() The second was having Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway play them in a hugely influential 1967 film. ![]() Their spectacular deaths made them household names in parts of the country where their bank and gas station holdups - for the most part, penny-ante stuff - weren't considered big news like the crimes of John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd. The first was getting ambushed on a back road in Bienville Parish, La., on May 23, 1934, by a posse of Texas and Louisiana lawmen. By Jeff Guinn (Simon & Schuster, 467 pages, $27) Bonnie and Clyde The Lives Behind the Legend By Paul Schneider ( Henry Holt, 400 pages, $27.50)Ĭlyde Chestnut Barrow and Bonnie Elizabeth Parker made two astute career moves. ![]()
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