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Book The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Download or read book The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy written by E. Luscomb Haskell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Download or read book The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy written by Jesse Harding Pomeroy and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selections from the Writings of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Download or read book Selections from the Writings of Jesse Harding Pomeroy written by Jesse Harding Pomeroy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Autobiography of Jesse H  Pomeroy

Download or read book Autobiography of Jesse H Pomeroy written by Jesse Harding Pomeroy and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Autobiography of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Download or read book Autobiography of Jesse Harding Pomeroy written by Jesse Harding Pomeroy and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Crimes of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Download or read book The Life and Crimes of Jesse Harding Pomeroy written by Albert Warren Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy

Download or read book The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy written by E. Luscomb Haskell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wilderness of Ruin

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  • Author : Roseanne Montillo
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2015-03-17
  • ISBN : 0062273493
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book The Wilderness of Ruin written by Roseanne Montillo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city—a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872—in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City. In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never come back. With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discover that their killer—fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy—is barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that follows sparks a debate among the world’s most revered medical minds, and will have a decades-long impact on the judicial system and medical consciousness. The Wilderness of Ruin is a riveting tale of gruesome murder and depravity. At its heart is a great American city divided by class—a chasm that widens in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1872. Roseanne Montillo brings Gilded Age Boston to glorious life—from the genteel cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill to the squalid, overcrowded tenements of Southie. Here, too, is the writer Herman Melville. Enthralled by the child killer’s case, he enlists physician Oliver Wendell Holmes to help him understand how it might relate to his own mental instability. With verve and historical detail, Roseanne Montillo explores this case that reverberated through all of Boston society in order to help us understand our modern hunger for the prurient and sensational. The Wilderness of Ruin features more than a dozen black-and-white photographs.

Book Fiend

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  • Author : Harold Schechter
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-11-13
  • ISBN : 1476729131
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Fiend written by Harold Schechter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unputdownable true crime story about a killer who preyed on children but was not much older than his victims. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, Boston’s nightmarish reign of terror came to an end. Called the “Boston Boy Fiend,” he was finally safely behind bars. But questions remained about how and why a teenager could commit such heinous crimes. Acclaimed true crime writer Harold Schechter brings his brilliant insight and fascinating historical documentation to this unforgettable exploration of one of America’s youngest serial killers.

Book The Alienist

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  • Author : Caleb Carr
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2006-10-24
  • ISBN : 1588365409
  • Pages : 513 pages

Download or read book The Alienist written by Caleb Carr and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-10-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • “A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us.”—The Detroit News When The Alienist was first published in 1994, it was a major phenomenon, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list, receiving critical acclaim, and selling millions of copies. This modern classic continues to be a touchstone of historical suspense fiction for readers everywhere. The year is 1896. The city is New York. Newspaper reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned by his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler—a psychologist, or “alienist”—to view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy abandoned on the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge. From there the two embark on a revolutionary effort in criminology: creating a psychological profile of the perpetrator based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who will kill again before their hunt is over. Fast-paced and riveting, infused with historical detail, The Alienist conjures up Gilded Age New York, with its tenements and mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. It is an age in which questioning society’s belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and fatal consequences. Praise for The Alienist “[A] delicious premise . . . Its settings and characterizations are much more sophisticated than the run-of-the-mill thrillers that line the shelves in bookstores.”—The Washington Post Book World “Mesmerizing.”—Detroit Free Press “The method of the hunt and the disparate team of hunters lift the tale beyond the level of a good thriller—way beyond. . . . A remarkable combination of historical novel and psychological thriller.”—The Buffalo News “Engrossing.”—Newsweek “Gripping, atmospheric . . . intelligent and entertaining.”—USA Today “A high-spirited, charged-up and unfailingly smart thriller.”—Los Angeles Times “Keeps readers turning pages well past their bedtime.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Book Our City and Its People

Download or read book Our City and Its People written by Daniel Elbridge Wager and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Huntington Family in America

Download or read book The Huntington Family in America written by Huntington Family Association and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fiend

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  • Author : Harold Schechter
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2000-10
  • ISBN : 067101448X
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Fiend written by Harold Schechter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree-the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime-were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today. Jesse Pomeroy was outwardly repellent in appearance, with a gruesome "dead" eye; inside, he was deformed beyond imagining. A sexual sadist of disturbing precocity, he satisfied his atrocious appetites by abducting and torturing his child victims. But soon, the teenager's bloodlust gave way to another obsession: murder.

Book Central to Their Lives

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  • Author : Lynne Blackman
  • Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
  • Release : 2018-06-20
  • ISBN : 1611179556
  • Pages : 435 pages

Download or read book Central to Their Lives written by Lynne Blackman and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable women artists but as notable artists who happen to be women." In Central to Their Lives, twenty-six noted art historians offer scholarly insight into the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South. Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, this volume examines the complex challenges these artists faced in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted. The presentation—and its companion exhibition—features artists from all of the Southern states, including Dusti Bongé, Anne Goldthwaite, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Ida Kohlmeyer, Loïs Mailou Jones, Alma Thomas, and Helen Turner. These essays examine how the variables of historical gender norms, educational barriers, race, regionalism, sisterhood, suffrage, and modernism mitigated and motivated these women who were seeking expression on canvas or in clay. Whether working from studio space, in spare rooms at home, or on the world stage, these artists made remarkable contributions to the art world while fostering future generations of artists through instruction, incorporating new aesthetics into the fine arts, and challenging the status quo. Sylvia Yount, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a foreword to the volume. Contributors: Sara C. Arnold Daniel Belasco Lynne Blackman Carolyn J. Brown Erin R. Corrales-Diaz John A. Cuthbert Juilee Decker Nancy M. Doll Jane W. Faquin Elizabeth C. Hamilton Elizabeth S. Hawley Maia Jalenak Karen Towers Klacsmann Sandy McCain Dwight McInvaill Courtney A. McNeil Christopher C. Oliver Julie Pierotti Deborah C. Pollack Robin R. Salmon Mary Louise Soldo Schultz Martha R. Severens Evie Torrono Stephen C. Wicks Kristen Miller Zohn

Book The Torso Killer

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  • Author : Ron Leith
  • Publisher : Pinnacle Books
  • Release : 1991-06
  • ISBN : 9781558175181
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book The Torso Killer written by Ron Leith and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Lyman Trumbull

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  • Author : Horace White
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2018-04-05
  • ISBN : 3732654141
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book The Life of Lyman Trumbull written by Horace White and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White