We Is Got Him: The Kidnapping That Changed America - Hardcover

Hagen, Carrie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590200861 ISBN 13: 9781590200865

Verlag: Overlook Pr, 2011

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"She has got us. From the first few pages, Carrie Hagen captures us with this richly-told account of a desperate crime, a devastated family, a frightened city, a floundering police force, and a wounded nation. Hold on tight: This pulse-pounding ride into 1874 America, an age of bright promise and lost innocence, will open your eyes even as it breaks your heart." --Steve Luxenberg, author of "Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret" and "Washington Post" associate editor
"Hagen's first book re-enacts with literary confidence and fine detail America's first documented kidnapping, in 1874 Philadelphia, of a four- year-old boy, Charley Ross...Hagen's writing balances journalistic sincerity and dispassion with exciting precision." --"Publishers Weekly"
"Resolution (crooks dead, informant jailed, boy never found) and all, Hagen's able debut should grab those who prefer historical to contemporary felonies." --"Booklist"
"Hagen skillfully narrates a saga that tra

"Adorable, blond, 4-year-old Charlie Ross of Philadelphia was playing in his front yard one fine day in 1874 when a stranger in a horse-and-carriage offered candy. If you can't make sense of Caylee Anthony or JonBenet Ramsey, join fearless Philadelphia writer Carrie Hagen as she unearths the definitive true tale of the first child kidnapped and murdered by monstrous adults in the history of the United States. As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World's Fair for "Devil in the White City," Hagen's "We Is Got Him" chronicles an equally horrific, more heartbreaking, and tragically more relevant nineteenth-century story, with characters only Dostoevsky could invent." --Michael Capuzzo, author of "The Murder Room"
"Carrie Hagen's fast-paced "We Is Got Him" sets up a dual story of the search for Charley and his abductors during the politically charged planning of the United States' Centennial celebration in Philadelphia. That the two events actually overlap is a writer's gift to Hag

"Relentlessly suspenseful... This is an elegantly told, superbly accomplished history of good and bad intentions gone awry." -- -"Philadelphia Inquirer"
"As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World's Fair for "Devil in the White City," Hagen chronicles a tragically more relevant 19th-century story." -- -Michael Capuzzo, author of "The Murder Room"

"Relentlessly suspenseful This is an elegantly told, superbly accomplished history of good and bad intentions gone awry." "Philadelphia Inquirer"
"As Erik Larson mined the 1893 Chicago World s Fair for "Devil in the White City," Hagen chronicles a tragically more relevant 19th-century story." Michael Capuzzo, author of "The Murder Room""

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An in-depth account of America's first ransomed kidnapping case describes young Charley Ross's abduction from his 1874 Philadelphia home and the ensuing manhunt that occurred against a backdrop of the nation's centennial celebration and the social unrest and underworld activities that were shaping the country. 15,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Overlook Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1590200861
• ISBN 13: 9781590200865
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336