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The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murderdelivering 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 havent 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

Who reads Popular Crime : Reflections on the Celebration of Violence?

Author

Bill, 1949- James

Publisher

New York: Scribner

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439182727

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, True Crime, Fiction

Rating

3.71 / 5 (1,798 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13