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Kansas Charley: The Boy Murderer
Author(s): Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publication Date: August 31, 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 014200488X
- ISBN-13: 9780142004883
Book Description
Traces the century-old juvenile murder case of fifteen-year-old Charles Miller, citing such factors as his orphaned state at the age of six, his inability to find a safe home, the influences of poverty and abuse that led to his murder of two other young men, and his controversial, politically motivated execution. Reprint.
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About the Author
Joan Jacobs Brumberg is the award-winning author of Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa and The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. She is a professor at Cornell University.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg is a professor at Cornell University where she teaches history, human development, and women's studies.
