Leopold and Loeb The Crime of the Century |
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Author:
| Higdon, Hal |
ISBN: | 978-0-252-06829-4 |
Publication Date: | Apr 1999 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families. In a meticulously planned murder scheme disguised as a kidnapping, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb chose fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks at random as their ......
Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families. In a meticulously planned murder scheme disguised as a kidnapping, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb chose fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks at random as their ......