Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Joseph A. ConfortiSeries:Landmark Law Cases & American SocietyPublish date:2016-02-02Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KansasISBN-13:9780700622337ISBN-10:700622330UPC:9780700622337Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCCG2EXDDK
Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture.
Surprising for how much it reveals about...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KansasISBN-13:9780700622337ISBN-10:700622330UPC:9780700622337Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCCG2EXDDK
Conforti, Joseph A.: - Joseph A. Conforti is Distinguished Professor of American and New England Studies Emeritus at the University of Southern Maine in Portland. He is the author of several books, including the award-winning Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century and Another City upon a Hill, a memoir of growing up in Lizzie...
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