Description
Book SynopsisDuring the summer of 1924, everyone was obsessed with Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, the two wealthy, brilliant, lovers who had brutally murdered a boy with a chisel just for the “thrill.” Between the charm and accessibility of the dashing teenage defendants, their “deviant” sexual appetites, and the 1920s’ culture wars over the generational shift in acceptable morality, it is no wonder it was labeled the trial of the century.
100 years after the murder, this groundbreaking new biography reveals the motivations behind Bobby’s death and the secret life of one of his killers.
Pulling on previously unseen archival collections from across the country, Arrested Adolescence looks at the full life of Nathan Leopold to discover the secrets hidden from history.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Childhood
Chapter 1: Growing Up
Chapter 2: A New Relationship
Chapter 3: Wild Lives
Part Two: Crime
Chapter 4: Planning
Chapter 5: Execution
Chapter 6: Caught
Part Three: Sentencing Hearing
Chapter 7: Incrimination
Chapter 8: The Hearing Begins
Chapter 9: The Hearing Ends
Part Four: Prison
Chapter 10: A New Code
Chapter 11: Turbulence
Chapter 12: The Prime of Life
Chapter 13: Loss
Chapter 14: Depression and New Hope
Chapter 15: Image Rehabilitation
Chapter 16: Parole
Part Five: Freedom
Chapter 17: A New Life
Chapter 18: Emerging from Seclusion
Chapter 19: Freedom
Chapter 20: Notoriety Becomes Celebrity
Chapter 21: High Life
Chapter 22: Decline and Death
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
