The Crime of The Century: The Leopold and Loeb Case

Hal Higdon

ISBN 10: 0399114912 / ISBN 13: 9780399114915

Editore: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, 1975

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G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1975. Hardcover. First Edition (NAP). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light bumping to head, tail, and tips; light dust soiling to textblock top. DJ: Very Good; NOT Price Clipped ($10.00); bumping and light wear to head, tail, and tips. Black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 380 pp 8vo. Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families. In a meticulously planned murder scheme disguised as a kidnapping, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb chose fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks at random as their victim, abandoning his crumpled body in a culvert before his parents had a chance to respond to the ransom demand. Revealing secret testimony and raising questions that have gone unanswered for decades, Hal Higdon separates fact from myth as he unravels the crime, the investigation, and the trial, in which Leopold and Loeb were defended by the era's most famous attorney, Clarence Darrow. Higdon's razor sharp account of their chilling act, their celebrity, and their ultimate emergence as folk heroes resonates unnervingly in our own violent time. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Codice articolo 017681

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Titolo: The Crime of The Century: The Leopold and ...

Casa editrice: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY

Data di pubblicazione: 1975

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good +

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Details the events surrounding the 1924 kidnapping and murder of Bobby Franks, emphasizing the psychological anomalies presented by the wealthy, highly intelligent murderers