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Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence by James, Bill
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781416552734
- Book Title
- Popular Crime : Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- True Crime, Social Science
- Topic
- Murder / General, General, Criminology
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 24.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 496 Pages
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Product Information
The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder--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. Now, 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 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 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 amateur's powerful examination of the incredible impact crime stories have on our society, culture and history.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1416552731
ISBN-13
9781416552734
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109035596
Product Key Features
Book Title
Popular Crime : Reflections on the Celebration of Violence
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, General, Criminology
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6779.J36 2011
Reviews
"James turns out to be not just the most important writer/thinker on baseball of our generation but also--completely unexpectedly--to have read more books in the true crime genre than maybe anyone else alive. In Popular Crime he works his way though every major true crime story of the last 200 years-- from Lizzie Borden to JonBenet Ramsey--making (as one would expect) all kinds of brilliant, wildly entertaining and occasionally completely nutty Jamesian observations."--Malcolm Gladwell, For true-crime afficianados, this book is a hoot. James has to be the least starchy serious writer I've run across in years. He has the gift of writing the way a person talks-no easy task, believe me-giving Popular Crime a folksy, conversational feel."- The New York Times Book Review, "James turns out to be not just the most important writer/thinker on baseball of our generation but also-completely unexpectedly-to have read more books in the true crime genre than maybe anyone else alive. In Popular Crime he works his way though every major true crime story of the last 200 years- from Lizzie Borden to JonBenet Ramsey-making (as one would expect) all kinds of brilliant, wildly entertaining and occasionally completely nutty Jamesian observations."-Malcolm Gladwell , "Running through Popular Crime is an exploration of the enduring popularity of true crime. James' thought-provoking meditations elevate his book far above any routine recitation of facts."- The Seattle Times, "The book is a success, thoughtful and thought provoking. It is also gruesome, ghoulish, and appalling--and utterly fascinating."-- The Daily Beast, "Bill James is an American original who has an original take on everything he writes about, on criminals as much as catchers. You may feel compelled to skip dinner, turning his pages, even when you think he's out to lunch."-Adam Gopnik, "James turns out to be not just the most important writer/thinker on baseball of our generation but also--completely unexpectedly--to have read more books in the true crime genre than maybe anyone else alive. In Popular Crime he works his way though every major true crime story of the last 200 years-- from Lizzie Borden to JonBenet Ramsey--making (as one would expect) all kinds of brilliant, wildly entertaining and occasionally completely nutty Jamesian observations."--Malcolm Gladwell , " Popular Crime will remind you of just how wonderful a writer Mr. James is. Incisive analysis and encyclopedic knowledge tempered by a sometimes morbid, but never jaded, dose of Americana: it's sabermetrics meets the Coen Brothers."-Nate Silver, "James is a rare combination of amateur logician and sociologist, stylist, humorist, and stern moralist."- Time, "I would read Bill James on anything. I would read him on the price of burlap in Des Moines. Yet here, as with baseball, he has found a subject worthy of his obsession. Popular Crime is the best kind of guilty pleasure: sure to inspire countless bar-stool digressions, and brimming with arguments about why these tabloid stories, and the ways we often misunderstand them, actually matter. James may be our foremost forensic historian."-Ben McGrath, "A very entertaining book, and it will instigate arguments even as it scores many important points."- The Washington Post
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-036180
Dewey Decimal
364.10973
Dewey Edition
22
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