Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties Review

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Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties ReviewFans of Lesy's legendary first book Wisconsin Death Trip (1973) will be delighted to discover his latest. Lesy teaches at Hampshire College. He was planning to give his students an assignment, to look at the on-line photo archive of a Chicago newspaper.
Lesy decided that he had better check it out for himself first. He was stunned by what he found. Chicago in the 1920's had an astonishingly high murder rate. The Chicago newspapers of the time went by the editorial mantra that if it bleeds it leads. Lesy found lots of high profile murder cases splattered across the front pages. He decided that this would make a book.
Lesy labored in the decaying microfilm libraries and excavated the material for Murder City. You might think that these would be mostly gangland killings. They are not. There are a few but Lesy had plenty of others to include. A WWI vet kills his sister-in-law for a few bucks. Battered women shoot the men who abused them, etc.
Lesy's choice of photographs is as compelling as his terse and pithy prose. These are not gory scenes but they give us snapshots of the haunted eyes of killers.
Your blood will run cold. Stunning!Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties Overview

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