Just the Facts: Nonfiction Books Reviewed
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How a shared tradition of ideas and values—not bloodlines—can be a force for liberty
On July 28, 1841, Mary Rogers was found floating in the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her violent murder became a national sensation, and led Edgar Allen Poe to write a story about it that helped lead to the invention of the genre we now know as 'True Crime.'
Book World: Haunted by a grisly execution, an investigator decides to dig deeper Daniel Stashower, The Washington Post March 5, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice By Ellen McGarrahan - - - "I've tried to ignore this mystery, this misery, which has grayed the edges of so many days," writes Ellen McGarrahan at the start of "Two Truths and a Lie," her haunting memoir, which also unfolds as a gripping true-crime narrative. "But I keep waking up in the middle of it, this rattling echo, this old sorrow, these dead bones. I n...