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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. Hanging Of John Billington / William Bradford -- Pillars Of Salt / Cotton Mather -- Murder Of A Daughter / Benjamin Franklin -- An Account Of A Murder Committed By Mr. J-y-, Upon His Family, In December, A.d. 1781 / Anonymous -- A Crime More Atrocious And Horrible Than Any Other / Timothy Dwight -- Record Of Crimes In The United States / Jesse Strang -- Recent Tragedy / James Gordon Bennett -- A Show Of Wax-figures / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Remarkable Case Of Arrest For Murder / Abraham Lincoln -- Crim

Who reads True Crime: An American Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication?

Author

Harold Schechter

Publisher

New York: Library of America: Distributed to the trade by Penguin Putnam Inc.

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781598530315

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Political Science

Rating

3.85 / 5 (303 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14