Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

June 7, 2019 - Comment

Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 512 Publisher: Scribner The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder-Delivering a unique engrossing. Illiant history of Tabloid CRIME in America Celeated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has been interested in writing

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Paperback. Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 512 Publisher: Scribner The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder-Delivering a unique engrossing. Illiant history of Tabloid CRIME in America Celeated 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. Now. with Popular Crime. James takes readers on an epic journey from Lizzie Borden to the Lindbergh baby. from the Black Dahlia to OJ Simpson. explaining how crimes have been committed. investigated. prosecuted and written about. and how that has profoundly influenced our culture over the last few centuries-even if we haven’t always taken notice. Exploring such phenomena as serial murder. the fluctuation of crime rates. the value of evidence. radicalism and crime. prison reform an…

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