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The Resource Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free, Sarah Weinman

Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free, Sarah Weinman

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Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free
Title
Scoundrel
Title remainder
how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free
Statement of responsibility
Sarah Weinman
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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.
Assigning source
--Jacket flap
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Weinman, Sarah
Dewey number
364.152/3092
Illustrations
  • plates
  • photographs
Index
index present
LC call number
HV6248.S578
LC item number
W45 2022
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Smith, Edgar
  • Murderers
  • Swindlers and swindling
  • Homicides
Label
Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free, Sarah Weinman
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-425) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780062899767
Lccn
2021044151
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
photographs (black & white)
System control number
(OCoLC)on1250511111
Label
Scoundrel : how a convicted murderer persuaded the women who loved him, the conservative establishment, and the courts to set him free, Sarah Weinman
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-425) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780062899767
Lccn
2021044151
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
photographs (black & white)
System control number
(OCoLC)on1250511111

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