Arrested adolescence : the secret life of Nathan Leopold / Erik Rebain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rebain, Erik, 1993- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Murderers--United States--Biography.

Murderers.

Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971.

Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 331 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2023.

Summary:

Nathan Leopold seemed to live a charmed life: a published, polyglot college graduate by the time he was 19 and from a prominent, wealthy Chicago family. So, it was a shock to everyone when he and his lover, Richard Loeb, confessed to killing their 14-year-old neighbor Bobby Franks "for a thrill." During the summer of 1924 the world watched in fascinated horror as the pair were defended by the famous Clarence Darrow in what many labeled "the trial of the century." There was a massive public outcry when the murderers were spared the death penalty, and once they were behind bars, most hoped they would never be heard from again. 33 years after the murder, it seemed that Nathan Leopold was a changed man. In prison he ran a high school and library, worked as a nurse, and helped find a cure for malaria. He was deemed rehabilitated and paroled to a tiny town in the mountains of Puerto Rico. There he got a degree in social work, raised funds to build a hospital, and advocated for the abolishment of prisons and capital punishment. When he died in 1971 there was an outpouring of support for the "gentle" "reformed" killer. Yet his life was not what it seemed. 100 years after the murder, this groundbreaking new biography uses previously unseen archival collections to look at the full life of Nathan Leopold and reveal the motivations behind Bobby's death and the secrets kept hidden from history.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. One Childhood

1. Growing Up

2. A New Relationship

3. Wild Lives

pt. Two Crime

4. Planning

5. Execution

6. Caught

pt. Three Sentencing Hearing

7. Incrimination

8. The Hearing Begins

9. The Hearing Ends

pt. Four Prison

10. A New Code

11. Turbulence

12. The Prime of Life

13. Loss

14. Depression and New Hope

15. Image Rehabilitation

16. Parole

pt. Five Freedom

17. A New Life

18. Emerging from Seclusion

19. Freedom

20. Notoriety Becomes Celebrity

21. High Life

22. Decline and Death.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1538158604

9781538158609

OCLC:

1331706730

Publisher Number:

99993629707