Bonnie had aspirations to become an actress or a poet. Bonnie’s family looked to climb the west Texas social ladder until her brick-mason father died and left them broke.Ĭlyde had originally hoped to form a band he was a decent musician. “The Devil’s Back Porch” he calls it: the post-World War I American South - dusty, sterile, hopeless and poverty-stricken.Ĭlyde Barrow’s family lived in a tent city. Guinn whisks us back to the world that could spawn this kind of legend. Seventy-five years after the outlaws’ deaths, author Jeff Guinn delivers an intense but fascinating new look at Bonnie and Clyde that rubs the gloss from the mythos and replaces it with a patina of true grit. This tidbit and others in the true story of Bonnie and Clyde are revealed in an exhaustively researched new book, Go Down Together. But in reality, long before Clyde Barrow met Bonnie Parker, he had fallen in love with a Southern beauty named Eleanor whose initials were tattooed on his arm. The most famous outlaw couple in American history could have been “Eleanor and Clyde”.
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