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Lizzie Borden on trial : murder, ethnicity, and gender /

"This is a retelling of the famous story of Lizzie Borden, charged with killing her father and stepmother with "forty whacks" of a hatchet. Conforti describes the crime, the investigation, and the trial that resulted in her acquittal. He places the trial in the context of the social a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conforti, Joseph A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Colección:Landmark Law Cases and American Society
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Setting: The Bordens of Fall River
  • The Bordens of Second Street
  • The Crime Heard 'round the Country and Beyond
  • The Investigation
  • Arrest
  • "Probably Guilty"
  • Lizzie's Long Wait
  • Prosecuting Lizzie
  • The Court's Heavy Hand
  • Defending Lizzie
  • Verdict.