The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption

Bryan, Patricia L.; Wolf, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1609388399 / ISBN 13: 9781609388393

Edité par University of Iowa Press, 2022

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. N° de réf. du vendeur G1609388399I4N10

Synopsis :

2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - History, Regional, winner

On a moonlit night in 1889, Iowa farmer John Elkins and his young wife, Hattie, were brutally murdered in their bed. Eight days later, their son, eleven-year-old Wesley Elkins, was arrested and charged with murder. The community reeled with shock by both the gruesome details of the homicides and the knowledge of the accused perpetrator--a small, quiet boy weighing just 75 pounds.

Accessible and fast-moving, The Plea delivers a complete, complex, and nuanced narrative of this horrific crime, while shedding light on the legal, social, and political environment of Iowa and the country in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

À propos de l'auteur: Patricia L. Bryan is coauthor of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland (Iowa, 2007) and coeditor of Her America: "A Jury of Her Peers" and Other Stories by Susan Glaspell (Iowa, 2010). She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Thomas Wolf is coauthor of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America's Heartland (Iowa, 2007), and author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley ...
Éditeur : University of Iowa Press
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good
Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket