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Popular crime : reflections on the celebration of violence / Bill James.
Record details
- ISBN: 1416552731
- ISBN: 9781416552734 (hc) :
- Physical Description: xii, 482 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, c2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
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| Subject: | Crime > United States > History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
Presents a cultural analysis of sensational crime in America that profiles such infamous cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Black Dahlia murder, and O.J. Simpson's trial to offer insight into topics ranging from evidence practices to radicalism. - Baker & Taylor
The author ofBaseball Abstracts presents a cultural analysis of sensational crime in America that profiles such infamous cases as the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Black Dahlia murder and O.J. Simpson's trial to offer insight into topics ranging from crime rats and evidence practices to prison reform and radicalism. 100,000 first printing. - Blackwell Publishing
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murderâdelivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America.
Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has been interested in writing a book on the topic for decades. Now, with Popular Crime, James takes readers on an epic journey from Lizzie Borden to the Lindbergh baby, from the Black Dahlia to O. J. Simpson, explaining how crimes have been committed, investigated, prosecuted and written about, and how that has profoundly influenced our culture over the last few centuriesâ even if we havenât always taken notice.
Exploring such phenomena as serial murder, the fluctuation of crime rates, the value of evidence, radicalism and crime, prison reform and the hidden ways in which crimes have shaped, or reflected, our society, James chronicles murder and misdeeds from the 1600s to the present day. James pays particular attention to crimes that were sensations during their time but have faded into obscurity, as well as still-famous cases, some that have never been solved, including the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Boston Strangler and JonBenet Ramsey. Satisfyingly sprawling and tremendously entertaining, Popular Crime is a professed amateurâs powerful examination of the incredible impact crime stories have on our society, culture and history.
