Scoundrel

Released on by Sarah Weinman
preview-18

  • Scoundrel Book Detail

  • Author : Sarah Weinman
  • Release Date : 2022-02-22
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Genre : True Crime
  • Pages : 464
  • ISBN 13 : 0062899791
  • File Size : 77,77 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman PDF Summary

Book Description: A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him—including conservative thinker William F. Buckley—into helping set him free 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. From the people Smith deceived—Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him—to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another. Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith’s orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man’s ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith’s victims.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Scoundrel books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Scoundrel

Scoundrel

File Size : 56,56 MB
Total View : 7800 Views
DOWNLOAD

A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The

Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel

Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel

File Size : 7,7 MB
Total View : 4937 Views
DOWNLOAD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • You are cordially invited to the wedding of Princess Leia Organa and Han Solo. The Death Star is destroyed. Darth Vader is dead. T

What a Scoundrel Wants

What a Scoundrel Wants

File Size : 23,23 MB
Total View : 8239 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this dazzling, original tale, Carrie Lofty imagines a new chapter in the well-loved Robin Hood fable. Meet Robin's rakish nephew, Will Scarlet, a man whose t

The Scoundrel and I

The Scoundrel and I

File Size : 52,52 MB
Total View : 8990 Views
DOWNLOAD

"Printer's assistant Gabrielle Flood just made the worst mistake of her life. Then handsome, dashing Captain Anthony Masinter came along-- and made it even wors

The Scoundrel and the Lady

The Scoundrel and the Lady

File Size : 28,28 MB
Total View : 526 Views
DOWNLOAD

Iris Bennington is furious when she discovers her younger brother is following the instructions found in the acclaimed advice columns on How to be a Gentleman.