True Crime: An American Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
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True Crime: An American Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication
by Schechter, Harold | HC | Good
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- Hardcover
- Weight
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- ISBN
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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1598530313
ISBN-13
9781598530315
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66106243
Product Key Features
Book Title
True Crime: an American Anthology : a Library of America Special Publication
Number of Pages
900 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Law Enforcement, Violence in Society
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
35.3 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.9 in
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Trade
Reviews
“Not only is this the best true-crime anthology I’ve ever seen—but, if you sift the clues scattered through these remarkable pieces, it turns into an outline of the social history of the United States. A must for every bookshelf!â€� —Luc Sante, Not only is this the best true-crime anthology I’ve ever seen—but, if you sift the clues scattered through these remarkable pieces, it turns into an outline of the social history of the United States. A must for every bookshelf!” —Luc Sante
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Twelfth Grade
Synopsis
From the Mayflower to the Menendez brothers, a sweeping survey of the best writing about crime in America Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime writing became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which American writers have explored crime in a multitude of aspects: the dark motives that spur it, the shock of its impact on society, the effort to make sense of the violent extremes of human behavior. Here is the full spectrum of the true crime genre, including accounts of some of the most notorious criminal cases in American history: the Helen Jewett murder and the once-notorious "Kentucky tragedy" of the 1830s, the assassination of President Garfield, the Snyder-Gray murder that inspired Double Indemnity , the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Black Dahlia, Leopold and Loeb, and the Manson family. True Crime draws upon the writing of literary figures as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne (reporting on a visit to a waxworks exhibit of notorious crimes), Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser (offering his views on a 1934 murder that some saw as a "copycat" version of An American Tragedy ), James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, and Truman Capote and sources as varied as execution sermons, murder ballads, early broadsides and trial reports, and tabloid journalism of many different eras. It also features the influential true crime writing of best-selling contemporary practitioners like James Ellroy, Gay Talese, Dominick Dunne, and Ann Rule., Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime writing became a dominant genre in American writing. True Crime: An American Anthology offers the first comprehensive look at the many ways in which American writers have explored crime in a multitude of aspects: the dark motives that spur it, the shock of its impact on society, the effort to make sense of the violent extremes of human behavior. Here is the full spectrum of the true crime genre, including accounts of some of the most notorious criminal cases in American history: the Helen Jewett murder and the once-notorious ?Kentucky tragedy? of the 1830s, the assassination of President Garfield, the Snyder- Gray murder that inspired Double Indemnity , the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Black Dahlia, Leopold and Loeb, and the Manson family. True Crime draws upon the writing of literary figures as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne (reporting on a visit to a waxworks exhibit of notorious crimes), Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser (offering his views on a 1934 murder that some saw as a ?copycat? version of An American Tragedy ), James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, and Truman Capote and sources as varied as execution sermons, murder ballads, early broadsides and trial reports, and tabloid journalism of many different eras. It also features the influential true crime writing of best-selling contemporary practitioners like James Ellroy, Gay Talese, Dominick Dunne, and Ann Rule.
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