Lizzie Borden on Trial: Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender

by Joseph A. Conforti

Book Overview

Most people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks," but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Conforti's engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture.

Surprising for how much it reveals about a legend so ostensibly familiar, Conforti's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700622330
• ISBN13: 9780700622337
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"