Rogue Scholar - The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff (Hardcover, New)

This is the tale of the insalubrious and utterly failed life of the notorious nineteenth-century thief, murderer, professional impostor, and would-be philologist Edward Rulloff, who was condemned to die and hanged for his crimes. The life of Rulloff is a sordid account of misguided genius and abysmal consequences. Those who loved him courted disaster, and, in every case, the courtship flowered into catastrophe.
Richard Bailey's narrative, calm and impartial yet spiked with wit and suspense, captures perfectly the slightly haunted and overwrought air of Victorian rural America, calling on newspaper accounts, interviews, and eyewitness reports of the day. Inevitably, the quiet accumulation of details builds to a story that transcends its individual events to touch on the universal themes of any age.
Rogue Scholar is about the evil of one man who lived a life of deception and crime. Yet in a larger sense it is also the portrait of a condemned soul in its final hours, an examination of the death penalty, and a reminder that media sensationalism is nothing new.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2003
First published:	August 2003
Authors:	Richard W. Bailey
Dimensions:	164 x 237 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	275
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-11337-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
LSN:	0-472-11337-2
Barcode:	9780472113378

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