Leopold and Loeb - The Crime of the Century (Centenery Edition)

The razor-sharp account of a notorious murder The 1924 murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb shocked the nation. One hundred years later, the killing and its aftermath still reverberate through popular culture and the history of American crime. Hal Higdon’s true crime classic offers an unprecedented examination of the case. Higdon details Leopold and Loeb’s journey from privilege and promise to the planning and execution of their monstrous vision of the perfect crime. Drawing on secret testimony, Higdon follows the police investigation through the pair’s confessions of guilt and recreates the sensational hearing where Clarence Darrow, the nation’s most famous attorney, saved the pair from the death penalty. In-depth and definitive, Leopold and Loeb tells the dramatic story of a notorious crime and its long afterlife in the American imagination.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2023
First published:	2024
Authors:	Hal Higdon
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	392
Edition:	Centenery Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08757-8
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-252-08757-7
Barcode:	9780252087578

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