Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative
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ID: 549512
Title: Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
Author: Sarah Weinman
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:04:09
Language: English
Release date: 02-22-22
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary, Social Science
Summary:
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 himincluding conservative thinker William F. Buckleyinto 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 Smiths life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.
So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinmans 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 deceivedBuckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved himto 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 Smiths 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 mans ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smiths victims.
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ID: 549512
Title: Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
Author: Sarah Weinman
Narrator: Gabra Zackman
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9:04:09
Language: English
Release date: 02-22-22
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Literary, Social Science
Summary:
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 himincluding conservative thinker William F. Buckleyinto 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 Smiths life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.
So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinmans 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 deceivedBuckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved himto 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 Smiths 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 mans ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smiths victims.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Contact: info@hotaudiobook.com
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