criminals, crime, and the media : scurrilous cutthroats, marauding desperados, demented psychopaths, deluded assassins, serial widows, ruthless gangsters, angels of death, and hardened hitmen from colonial times to the present, and the songs, books, plays
Alphabetically arranged entries examine more than three hundred of the most notorious criminals and murderers in United States history and explore how their stories have been glorified by the media.