Bryan Burrough
Best-selling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent
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Bryan Burrough, the critically acclaimed co-author of Barbarians at the Gate, is considered one of the nation's leading journalists. A special correspondent at Vanity Fair for the last twelve years, and formerly a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Burrough has earned a reputation for infusing his writing with a sense of mystery, humor and humanity. He was written on a wide variety of subjects, from Hollywood to NASA, from murder mysteries in Israel to one of his latest efforts, tracing the Bush Administration's path to war in Iraq for Vanity Fair this spring.
Burrough's newest best seller is the untold story of the birth of the F.B.I., a crackling tale of adventure that uses long-secret government files to tell the story of the two-year war between J. Edgar Hoover's nascent F.B.I. and a host of legendary American criminals, including John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and the Ma Barker gang. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34, is the first comprehensive history of Hoover's infamous War on Crime, a sweeping epic of bank robbery, murder and manhunts across the nation's midsection.
In Public Enemies, Burrough for the first time shows how Hoover's organizational genius transformed the F.B.I. from a band of amateurish federal agents without firearms or arrest powers into the vaunted
G-Men of lore. At the same time, he not only punctures any number of myths - from the ineptitude of F.B.I. agents to the criminal genius of Ma Barker - he lays out the unadorned truth behind the legend of outlaws such as Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde.
A native of Temple, Texas, Burrough graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism. While in college, he served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, worked as a reporter for the Columbia Missourian and interned at the Waco Tribune-Herald and the Wall Street Journal's Dallas Bureau. He later joined the Journal's Houston bureau and soon transferred to the Pittsburgh office. A year later he moved to the New York bureau to cover mergers and acquisitions. In 1992 he joined Vanity Fair.
In 1990, Burrough co-authored Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, a behind-the-scenes look at what was at the time the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "one of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980s," it stayed on the Times' best-seller list for 39 weeks. Barbarians at the Gate was later made into an Emmy-nominated HBO film staring James Garner. His second book, Vendetta, exposed the details of American Express' smear campaign against international banking rival Edmond Safra. A third book, Dragonfly: An Epic True Story of Space, published in 1998, told the harrowing true story of American misadventures aboard the Russian space station Mir.
Burrough is a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their two sons.
Interested in booking Bryan Burrough to speak at your next event?
Burrough's newest best seller is the untold story of the birth of the F.B.I., a crackling tale of adventure that uses long-secret government files to tell the story of the two-year war between J. Edgar Hoover's nascent F.B.I. and a host of legendary American criminals, including John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly and the Ma Barker gang. Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the F.B.I., 1933-34, is the first comprehensive history of Hoover's infamous War on Crime, a sweeping epic of bank robbery, murder and manhunts across the nation's midsection.
In Public Enemies, Burrough for the first time shows how Hoover's organizational genius transformed the F.B.I. from a band of amateurish federal agents without firearms or arrest powers into the vaunted
G-Men of lore. At the same time, he not only punctures any number of myths - from the ineptitude of F.B.I. agents to the criminal genius of Ma Barker - he lays out the unadorned truth behind the legend of outlaws such as Dillinger and Bonnie and Clyde.
A native of Temple, Texas, Burrough graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor's degree in Journalism. While in college, he served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, worked as a reporter for the Columbia Missourian and interned at the Waco Tribune-Herald and the Wall Street Journal's Dallas Bureau. He later joined the Journal's Houston bureau and soon transferred to the Pittsburgh office. A year later he moved to the New York bureau to cover mergers and acquisitions. In 1992 he joined Vanity Fair.
In 1990, Burrough co-authored Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, a behind-the-scenes look at what was at the time the largest takeover in Wall Street history. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as "one of the finest, most compelling accounts of what happened to corporate America and Wall Street in the 1980s," it stayed on the Times' best-seller list for 39 weeks. Barbarians at the Gate was later made into an Emmy-nominated HBO film staring James Garner. His second book, Vendetta, exposed the details of American Express' smear campaign against international banking rival Edmond Safra. A third book, Dragonfly: An Epic True Story of Space, published in 1998, told the harrowing true story of American misadventures aboard the Russian space station Mir.
Burrough is a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their two sons.
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