Description
| Product ID: | 9780252087578 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Leopold and Loeb |
| Subtitle: | The Crime of the Century |
| Authors: | Author: Hal Higdon |
| Page Count: | 392 |
| Subjects: | True crime, True crime, History of the Americas, History, History of the Americas, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, USA, 20th century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Illinois Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-01-02 |
