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Title	:	True Crime: An American Anthology
Author	:	Harold Schechter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 788 pages
Published	:	September 18th 2008 by Library of America (first published 2008)
Categories	:	Crime. True Crime. Nonfiction. Mystery. History. Writing. Essays. Journalism. Anthologies

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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 writing 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. Here is the full spectrum of the true crime genre, including accounts of some of the most notorious criminal cases in American history: the Helen Jewett murder and the once-notorious ?Kentucky tragedy? of the 1830s, the assassination of President Garfield, the Snyder- Gray murder that inspired Double Indemnity, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the Black Dahlia, Leopold and Loeb, and the Manson family. True Crime draws upon the writing of literary figures as diverse as Nathaniel Hawthorne (reporting on a visit to a waxworks exhibit of notorious crimes), Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser (offering his views on a 1934 murder that some saw as a 'copycat' version of An American Tragedy), James Thurber, Joseph Mitchell, and Truman Capote and sources as varied as execution sermons, murder ballads, early broadsides and trial reports, and tabloid journalism of many different eras. It also features the influential true crime writing of best-selling contemporary practitioners like James Ellroy, Gay Talese, Dominick Dunne, and Ann Rule.

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Original Title:	True Crime: An American Anthology
ISBN:	1598530313 (ISBN13: 9781598530315)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.87 From 352 Users | 34 Reviews

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Another great Library of America anthology.

Satisfying my guilty pleasure in so many ways...

A collection of true murder stories, some written by well known authors. Some good, some not so good.

Great anthology of true crime stories, some infamous, some virtually unknown, but all well-written with brief bios of the writers. I read it slowly, just a story from time to time while reading other books in between. It definitely inspired me to want to write some true crime stories!

Short stories, easy read, interesting and disturbing..

When it's good, it's riveting. Some selections seem like filler, but maybe I just think they're boring because I'm a sicko with a taste for the macabre.Despite my middling rating, I still recommend this to any true crime or even just history buff. It's accounts like these that give a more complete picture of a complex nation's history, in my opinion.

The Library of America is best known for its dedication to keeping obscure but worthy American authors in print. Critics noted that this collection affirms this tradition, drawing attention to authors and characters most readers would otherwise miss (James Thurber, Theodore Dreiser, Susan Glaspell, and Zora Neale Hurston, for example). Reviewers consistently emphasized Harold Schechter