Scoundrel: The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom – An Exposé of Deception, Complicity, and Justice
Language: English
Published by Ecco, 2023
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- Title
- Scoundrel: The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom – An Exposé of Deception, Complicity, and Justice
- Author
- Weinman, Sarah
- Publisher
- Ecco
- Publication year
- 2023
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- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0062899775
- ISBN 13
- 9780062899774
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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About the Author
Sarah Weinman is the author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita and, most recently, is the editor of Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning. She was a 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for reporting and a Calderwood Journalism Fellow atMacDowell, and her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, Esquire, and New York magazine. Weinman is the Crime Mystery columnist for the New York Times Book Review and lives in New York City.
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