Nothing but the Night: Leopold &\; Loeb and the Truth behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Gre g King &\; Penny Wilson
\nNearly a hundred years ago\, two wealth y and privileged teenagers―Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb―w ere charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that led to the original &ld quo\;Trial of the Century&rdquo\;. Even in Jazz Age Chicago\, the murder w as uniquely shocking as well-to-do Jewish scions\, full of promise\, kille d fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defen dants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow\, who delivered one of the m ost famous defense summations of all time to save the boys from the death penalty. \;
\nUsing twenty-first century investigative tools\, f orensics\, and a modern understanding of the psychology of these infamous killers\, \;Nothing but the Night \;turns history on its head. While Loeb has long been viewed as the architect behind the murders\ , King and Wilson&rsquo\;s new research points to Leopold as the dominant partner in the deadly relationship\, uncovering a dark obsession with viol ence and sex. \;Nothing but the Night \;pulls readers int o the troubled world of Leopold and Loeb\, revealing a more horrifying tal e of passion\, obsession and betrayal than history ever imagined.
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