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Chargement... THE SENATOR'S SON: The Shocking Disappearance, The Celebrated Trial, and The Mystery That Remains A Century Laterpar Charles Oldham
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Although not a badly written book, it was just not my style. Details about life in rural south were interesting. Facts about the trial were given showing much research. However for me, I need clearer endings. It is still a mystery whether his son just got lost or was taken. The author gave clear explanations that could make either situation a reality. It did show how much influence political people have in small towns. Their power to ruin lives (his affect on another's income by creating rules) caused families to dislike each other. The daughter of the accused, the school teacher, really needed to have been further investigated in my mind. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1905, eight-year-old Kenneth Beasley walked to the back of his school's playground and into the melting snow of the woods beyond. He never returned.Soon a massive search was underway for the son of a North Carolina state senator. Hundreds combed the cold woods and swamplands of Currituck County, near the state's famed Outer Banks. Not a trace of the boy was found. A reward was offered. Clues, rumors, and even a ransom letter surfaced. All faded to nothingness. Then, a year and a half after Kenneth's disappearance, a political rival hurriedly was charged. Accused of the most bizarre and twisted of plots, he faced a courtroom overflowing with jurors, star lawyers, spectators and newspaper reporters. Allegations and alibis were traded. Epithets flew. The eventual jury verdict and stunning aftermath would rip apart two families and shock a state ... yet leave a mystery unsolved.NOW CHARLES OLDHAM, attorney by trade, has reopened the case. Using modern research methods and his own legal training-while also investigating the state's political, racial, lynching, and liquor cultures-Oldham has come as close as anyone can to the truth. The result is an absorbing, must-read story. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, The Senator's Son is both an important book and a fascinating one. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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