True Crime
Subtitle: An American Anthology
By: edited by Harold Schechter.
Contributors: Schechter, Harold.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: The Library of America
Published: September 18, 2008
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9781598530315
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Murder -- United States.   ; Crime -- Literary collections.  
Genres: Literary collections.  
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."
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.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 775-778) and index.
$40.00
Printing statement: "First Printing".
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: Harold Schector
pagenum: xi; label: Hanging of John Billington
title: William Bradford
pagenum: 1; label: Pillars of Salt
title: Cotton Mather
pagenum: 3; label: Murder of a Daughter
title: Benjamin Franklin
pagenum: 36; label: An Account of a Murder Committed by Mr. J- Y-, Upon His Family, In December, A.D. 1781
title: anonymous
pagenum: 39; label: "A Crime More Atrocious and Horrible Than Any Other"
title: Timothy Dwight
pagenum: 45; label: The Record of Crimes In the United States
title: Jesse Strang
pagenum: 52; label: The Recent Tragedy
title: James Gordon Bennett
pagenum: 63; label: "A Show of Wax-Figures"
title: Nathaniel Hawthorne
pagenum: 69; label: Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder
title: Abraham Lincoln
pagenum: 72; label: Crime News from California
title: Ambrose Bierce
pagenum: 80; label: From Roughing it
title: Mark Twain
pagenum: 87; label: Jesse Harding Pomeroy, the Boy Fiend
title: anonymous
pagenum: 98; label: Gibbeted
title: Lafcadio Hearn
pagenum: 117; label: A Memorable Murder
title: Celia Thaxter
pagenum: 151; label: The Trial of Guiteau
title: José Marti
pagenum: 156; label: The Murder of Annie Downey, Alias "Curly Tom"
title: Thomas Byrnes
pagenum: 171; label: Hunting Human Game
title: Frank Norris
pagenum: 175; label: The Hossack Murder
title: Susan Glaspell
pagenum: 179; label: Murder Ballads:
pagenum: 196; label: Poor Naomi
pagenum: 198; label: Stackalee
pagenum: 199; label: The Murder of Grace Brown
pagenum: 203; label: Belle Gunness
pagenum: 204; label: The Murder At Fall River
pagenum: 206; label: Trail's End
pagenum: 207; label: Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, Murderess
title: Thomas S. Duke
pagenum: 210; label: Hell Benders, Or the Story of a Wayside Tavern
title: Edmund Pearson
pagenum: 217; label: The Eternal Blonde
title: Damon Runyon
pagenum: 235; label: From the Gangs of New York
title: Herbert Asbury
pagenum: 303; label: The Mystery of the Hansom Cab
title: Alexander Woollcott
pagenum: 317; label: Execution
title: Joseph Mitchell
pagenum: 324; label: More and Better Psychopaths
title: H.L. Mencken
pagenum: 329; label: Dreiser Sees Error In Edwards Defense
title: Theodore Dreiser
pagenum: 354; label: Sex and the All-American Boy
title: Dorothy Kilgallen
pagenum: 339; label: Miss Ferber Views "Vultures" At Trial
title: Edna Ferber
pagenum: 371; label: Ditch of Doom
title: Jim Thompson
pagenum: 385; label: A Sort of Genius
title: James Thurber
pagenum: 392; label: Veteran Kills 12 In Mad Rampage on Camden Street
title: Meyer Berger
pagenum: 407; label: Butcher's Dozen
title: John Bartlow Martin
pagenum: 418; label: The Case of the Scattered Dutchman
title: A.J. Liebling
pagenum: 467; label: The Trial of Ruby Mccollum
title: Zora Neale Hurston
pagenum: 512; label: The Black Dahlia
title: Jack Webb
pagenum: 524; label: The Life and Death of Caryl Chessman
title: Elizabeth Hardwick
pagenum: 536; label: The Shambles of Ed Gein
title: Robert Bloch
pagenum: 549; label: Superman's Crime : Loeb and Leopold
title: Miriam Allen deFord
pagenum: 557; label: Eight Girls, All Pretty, All Nurses, All Slain
title: W.T. Brannon
pagenum: 578; label: The Pied Piper of Tucson
title: Don Moser
pagenum: 610; label: A Stranger with a Camera
title: Calvin Trillin
pagenum: 527; label: Charlie Manson's Home on the Range
title: Gay Talese
pagenum: 638; label: Then it All Came Down
title: Truman Capote
pagenum: 651; label: "Son of Sam"
title: Jimmy Breslin
pagenum: 662; label: The Turner-Stompanato Killing : a Family Affair
title: Jay Robert Nash
pagenum: 668; label: The Medea of Kew Gardens Hills
title: Albert Borowitz
pagenum: 686; label: My Mother's Killer
title: James Ellroy
pagenum: 707; label: Young Love
title: Ann Rule
pagenum: 721; label: Nightmare on Elm Drive
title: Dominick Dunne
pagenum: 737; label: Sources and Acknowledgments
title: Harold Schector
pagenum: 775; label: Index
pagenum: 779