Arrested Adolescence
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5860-9 (ISBN)
Nathan Leopold seemed to live a charmed life: a published, polyglot college graduate by the time he was 19 and from a prominent, wealthy Chicago family. So, it was a shock to everyone when he and his lover, Richard Loeb, confessed to killing their 14-year-old neighbor Bobby Franks “for a thrill.”
During the summer of 1924 the world watched in fascinated horror as the pair were defended by the famous Clarence Darrow in what many labeled "the trial of the century." There was a massive public outcry when the murderers were spared the death penalty, and once they were behind bars, most hoped they would never be heard from again.
33 years after the murder, it seemed that Nathan Leopold was a changed man. In prison he ran a high school and library, worked as a nurse, and helped find a cure for malaria. He was deemed rehabilitated and paroled to a tiny town in the mountains of Puerto Rico. There he got a degree in social work, raised funds to build a hospital, and advocated for the abolishment of prisons and capital punishment. When he died in 1971 there was an outpouring of support for the “gentle” “reformed” killer. Yet his life was not what it seemed.
100 years after the murder, this groundbreaking new biography uses previously unseen archival collections to look at the full life of Nathan Leopold and reveal the motivations behind Bobby’s death and the secrets kept hidden from history.
Erik Rebain is an archivist who works for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago History Museum. He has spent ten years researching the life of Nathan Leopold in over forty archives across the United States.
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Childhood
Chapter 1: Growing Up
Chapter 2: A New Relationship
Chapter 3: Wild Lives
Part Two: Crime
Chapter 4: Planning
Chapter 5: Execution
Chapter 6: Caught
Part Three: Sentencing Hearing
Chapter 7: Incrimination
Chapter 8: The Hearing Begins
Chapter 9: The Hearing Ends
Part Four: Prison
Chapter 10: A New Code
Chapter 11: Turbulence
Chapter 12: The Prime of Life
Chapter 13: Loss
Chapter 14: Depression and New Hope
Chapter 15: Image Rehabilitation
Chapter 16: Parole
Part Five: Freedom
Chapter 17: A New Life
Chapter 18: Emerging from Seclusion
Chapter 19: Freedom
Chapter 20: Notoriety Becomes Celebrity
Chapter 21: High Life
Chapter 22: Decline and Death
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 b/w illustration; 15 b/w photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 626 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-5860-4 / 1538158604 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-5860-9 / 9781538158609 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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