Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

From the one-of-kindÂ mind of Bill James, famous for revolutionizing the way we think about baseball, comes a â€œthought-provoking meditationâ€ (Seattle Times) and epic tour through American crimeâ€”now available in paperback.

The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball examines our cultural obsession with murderâ€”delivering 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. 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 havenâ€™t 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 amateurâ€™s powerful examination of the incredible impact crime stories have on our society, culture and history.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781416552741
ReleaseDate 2012-05-08
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781416552741

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781416552741
ReleaseDate	2012-05-08
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781416552741

Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

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