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Lädt ... Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Bordenvon David Kent
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is the best book that I have ever read about Lizzie Borden. Kent tries to be even-handed in his examination of the case (although I believe he leans towards her innocence) and the result is an extraordinarily detailed and nuanced account of the case. ( ) Not so much new evidence of the actual murders rather than new interpretation (though this book is dated too) of trial coverage, etc. Still, it is a good read of the legendary Victorian murders. I suppose it could really be simple enough if you just take the series of events and draw your own conclusion. Like Jack the Ripper, though, we will really never know. Lots of books came out about the Borden case, after the 100-year anniversary of the murders in 1992 unsealed some sealed documents. This one is the absolute best, hard facts, unsensational but still riveting reading. She didn't do it. Actually most books exonerate her. THIS one is the best one to explain why. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy. Wasn't this the ghoulish daughter who "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks" and then "gave her father forty-one"? Most people know the rhyme. What they don't know are the particulars of how Lizzie was hounded by prosecutors, pursued by the press, finally acquitted - yet always presumed guilty. For answers to these and many other questions about the unsolved mystery of Lizzie Borden, author David Kent turned to Robert A. Flynn, a native of Fall River, Massachusetts. As they delved deeper into the mystery, Kent and Flynn (author of the foreword) gained complete access to voluminous material - including newly acquired papers and never-before-published photographs that are now part of this book.
With evidence gleaned from court records and murder-scene photographs, David Kent reopened the case that shook the sleepy town of Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892. From essential details that were white-washed in the trial, a new picture of Lizzie Borden emerges, far different from the blood-stained portrait of legend. A true-crime mystery that reads like fiction, Forty Whacks is the vivid, compelling story of this woman's defense in the merciless courtroom of public opinion. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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