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Laddar... The Trial of Lizzie Borden (2019)av Cara Robertson
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Well-written and well-researched, I might just call this the reference work on the trial of Lizzie Borden. In fact, it is so well done that I would also recommend it alone for its historical accuracy on our society of the gilded age of America. It makes one feel part of and understand that time when America was confident, forward looking and innocent of the shape of things to come. The trial is nicely ensconced within this background and at the end, after having heard all the evidence available and reasoning of prosecution and defense alike, one truly wants to read Lizzie’s mind to find out what truly happened that fateful day, and as an additional thought we may wonder if modern forensics could have solved the case. ( ) Guilty. Robertson focuses on how the idea of a young gentlewoman committing a violent murder was recieved in 19th-c America, and how that influenced popular opinion and the outcome of the trial. If some of the trial narrative drags, imagine what it must've been like to actually have to sit in that courtroom. Robertson has done us all the favor of sorting through what must've been thousands of pages of trial transcripts and newspaper articles to distill an engaging narrative that contrasts the ideal of genteel womanhood with the reality of a "nice" woman who may well have (and I think did) murder her family. The story was engrossing. I wish I had bought it in print or ebook though. The narration killed it for me. It drove me crazy and distracted me from the book. The story itself is worth reading. Just do yourself a favor and read it in print or ebook. Definitely try the sample first. I plan to get a print copy. I really like the book. So maybe finishing up this book on Mother's Day was a little strange, but I'm not going to apologize. This is a fantastic factual look at the Lizzie Borden case. It starts with the crime and then moves step by step through the entire process through to the end of the trial and then a brief wrap up of the aftermath. It is about the trial and I suspect there are many who want more color and outside the courtroom scenes but I found it riveting and I appreciated the clear factual nature of the writing. Ms. Robertson uses the actual words of the participants to tell much of the story and the book gains credibility through that choice. What a truly fascinating case this was and is. It gets at a lot of important American themes about class, sexism, and the nature of our criminal system, and in the end I think that the evidence was not sufficient to merit a guilty verdict, but if you ask me who I think committed the crime then I will end up pointing at Lizzie Borden. As William Blackstone so elegantly and succinctly put it, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"The remarkable new account of an essential piece of American mythology--the trial of Lizzie Borden--based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence. The Trial of Lizzie Borden tells the true story of one of the most sensational murder trials in American history. When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August 1892, the arrest of the couple's younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known columnists took up conspicuous seats in the courtroom. The defendant was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone--rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars and laypeople--had an opinion about Lizzie Borden's guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she or didn't she? The popular fascination with the Borden murders and its central enigmatic character has endured for more than one hundred years. Immortalized in rhyme, told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror, but one typically wrenched from its historical moment. In contrast, Cara Robertson explores the stories Lizzie Borden's culture wanted and expected to hear and how those stories influenced the debate inside and outside of the courtroom. Based on transcripts of the Borden legal proceedings, contemporary newspaper accounts, unpublished local accounts, and recently unearthed letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden offers a window onto America in the Gilded Age, showcasing its most deeply held convictions and its most troubling social anxieties"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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