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The Crime of Our Age
Shapiro, Charles | December 1, 1956 issue

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This article provides brief information on the book "Compulsion," by Meyer Levin. The books presents the story of a trial conducted on two youthful murderers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. The book has been recognized as a masterpiece of pleading for the social outcast. But this case is now history, and the immediacy of the thrills which he trial gave the U.S., can be recaptured only by scanning the newspapers of the day. Even more vividly than the lurid prose, the photographs bring it all back.

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BOOKS & reading; COMPULSION (Book); LEVIN, Meyer; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of; TRIALS; MASS media
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