Scoundrel

how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free

Scoundrel

how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him the conservative establishment and the courts to set him free
Sarah Weinman
large type - 2022

"In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again."

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Tác giả chính: Weinman, Sarah (Tác giả)
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Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: New York, New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Phiên bản:First Harper large print edition.
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264 1 |a New York, New York :  |b Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,  |c [2022] 
264 4 |c ©2022 
300 |a xi, 581 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  |b illustrations ;  |c 23 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Part I: The sand pit (1957). "Where is Vickie?" -- The Mercury -- "If you're looking for a fall guy..." -- Openings -- "I just threw it out the window" -- "Eddie and Don aren't friends anymore" -- "It can't be" -- Part II: The death house (1958-1962). Patricia -- Divorces -- Part III: The conservative (1962-1966). A "lifetime" subscription -- "My God, I wish I could be absolutely certain" -- Meeting in Trenton -- Waiting for death -- Part IV: Making the brief (1967-1968). Lunch at Paone's -- "They must think I am Houdini" -- Blood, nerves, vibrations -- Hatkic -- March to publication -- The breach -- Brief against death -- Part V: Reasonable doubts (1969-1971). Rogue's wake -- A reasonable doubt -- Bid for a new trial -- Conviction overturned -- Part VI: Getting out (1971-1976). Non vult -- Freedom's first dawn -- The celebrity convict -- Counterpoint -- Paige -- Part VII: Boiling over (1976-1979). Rage, revived -- On the run -- arrested again -- "The saga of a bad man" -- "Used and betrayed" -- Part VIII: Staying in (1980-2017). A strange triangle -- Vacaville -- Coda: 1948. 
520 |a "In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again." 
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