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An edition of True Crime: An American Anthology (2008)

True Crime

An American Anthology

First edition
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"Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime 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. "The human community," as Harold Schechter notes in his introduction, "finding itself under assault from within, searches desperately for a framework or context to explain the apparently unexplainable.""--Jacket.

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English
Pages
788

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September 18, 2008, The Library of America
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First Sentence

"In the ninth book of The Republic, Plato famously observed that "The virtuous man is content to dream what a wicked man really does.""

Table of Contents

Introduction. Harold Schector
Page xi
Hanging of John Billington. William Bradford
Page 1
Pillars of Salt. Cotton Mather
Page 3
Murder of a Daughter. Benjamin Franklin
Page 36
An Account of a Murder Committed by Mr. J- Y-, Upon His Family, In December, A.D. 1781. anonymous
Page 39
"A Crime More Atrocious and Horrible Than Any Other". Timothy Dwight
Page 45
The Record of Crimes In the United States. Jesse Strang
Page 52
The Recent Tragedy. James Gordon Bennett
Page 63
"A Show of Wax-Figures". Nathaniel Hawthorne
Page 69
Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder. Abraham Lincoln
Page 72
Crime News from California. Ambrose Bierce
Page 80
From Roughing it. Mark Twain
Page 87
Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the Boy Fiend. anonymous
Page 98
Gibbeted. Lafcadio Hearn
Page 117
A Memorable Murder. Celia Thaxter
Page 151
The Trial of Guiteau. José Marti
Page 156
The Murder of Annie Downey, Alias "Curly Tom". Thomas Byrnes
Page 171
Hunting Human Game. Frank Norris
Page 175
The Hossack Murder. Susan Glaspell
Page 179
Murder Ballads:.
Page 196
Poor Naomi.
Page 198
Stackalee.
Page 199
The Murder of Grace Brown.
Page 203
Belle Gunness.
Page 204
The Murder At Fall River.
Page 206
Trail's End.
Page 207
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, Murderess. Thomas S. Duke
Page 210
Hell Benders, Or the Story of a Wayside Tavern. Edmund Pearson
Page 217
The Eternal Blonde. Damon Runyon
Page 235
From the Gangs of New York. Herbert Asbury
Page 303
The Mystery of the Hansom Cab. Alexander Woollcott
Page 317
Execution. Joseph Mitchell
Page 324
More and Better Psychopaths. H.L. Mencken
Page 329
Dreiser Sees Error In Edwards Defense. Theodore Dreiser
Page 354
Sex and the All-American Boy. Dorothy Kilgallen
Page 339
Miss Ferber Views "Vultures" At Trial. Edna Ferber
Page 371
Ditch of Doom. Jim Thompson
Page 385
A Sort of Genius. James Thurber
Page 392
Veteran Kills 12 In Mad Rampage on Camden Street. Meyer Berger
Page 407
Butcher's Dozen. John Bartlow Martin
Page 418
The Case of the Scattered Dutchman. A.J. Liebling
Page 467
The Trial of Ruby Mccollum. Zora Neale Hurston
Page 512
The Black Dahlia. Jack Webb
Page 524
The Life and Death of Caryl Chessman. Elizabeth Hardwick
Page 536
The Shambles of Ed Gein. Robert Bloch
Page 549
Superman's Crime : Loeb and Leopold. Miriam Allen deFord
Page 557
Eight Girls, All Pretty, All Nurses, All Slain. W.T. Brannon
Page 578
The Pied Piper of Tucson. Don Moser
Page 610
A Stranger with a Camera. Calvin Trillin
Page 527
Charlie Manson's Home on the Range. Gay Talese
Page 638
Then it All Came Down. Truman Capote
Page 651
"Son of Sam". Jimmy Breslin
Page 662
The Turner-Stompanato Killing : a Family Affair. Jay Robert Nash
Page 668
The Medea of Kew Gardens Hills. Albert Borowitz
Page 686
My Mother's Killer. James Ellroy
Page 707
Young Love. Ann Rule
Page 721
Nightmare on Elm Drive. Dominick Dunne
Page 737
Sources and Acknowledgments. Harold Schector
Page 775
Index.
Page 779

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 775-778) and index.
$40.00
Printing statement: "First Printing".

Published in
New York City, New York, USA
Genre
Literary collections.
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Library of Congress
HV6521 .T783 2008, PS648.C7 T78 2008

Contributors

Book Designer
Francesca Belanger
Cover Photographer
Fototeka Gallery for the Los Angeles Police Department

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xx, 788 p. ;
Number of pages
788
Dimensions
21.3 x 14.9 x 4.8 centimeters
Weight
1008 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23107146M
ISBN 10
1598530313
ISBN 13
9781598530315
LCCN
2008927624
OCLC/WorldCat
223800861
Goodreads
3590446

Work Description

Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime 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. "The human community," as Harold Schechter notes in his introduction, "finding itself under assault from within, searches desperately for a framework or context to explain the apparently unexplainable."

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