9780060781026-0060781025-For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago

ISBN-13: 9780060781026
ISBN-10: 0060781025
Edition: Reprint
Author: Simon Baatz
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback 541 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780060781026
ISBN-10: 0060781025
Edition: Reprint
Author: Simon Baatz
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback 541 pages

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For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (ISBN-13: 9780060781026 and ISBN-10: 0060781025), written by authors Simon Baatz, was published by Harper Perennial in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Crime & Criminals, Specific Groups, Murder & Mayhem, True Crime, Colonial Period, United States History, State & Local, Criminal Law, Law Specialties) books. You can easily purchase or rent For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz Age Chicago (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.37.

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It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals—too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows. But the families of the confessed murderers hired Clarence Darrow, entrusting the lives of their sons to the most famous lawyer in America in what would be one of the most sensational criminal trials in the history of American justice.

Set against the backdrop of the 1920s—a time of prosperity, self-indulgence, and hedonistic excess in a lawless city on the brink of anarchy—For the Thrill of It draws the reader into a world of speakeasies and flappers, of gangsters and gin parties, with a spellbinding narrative of Jazz Age murder and mystery.

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