{"product_id":"justifiable-conduct-9781439910252","title":"Justifiable Conduct","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow memoirs justify deviant behavior from crime to sex to politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Erich Goode's \u003ci\u003eJustifiable Conduct\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply considered and wildly fascinating look into the craft of memoir. This book should be required reading for those who read, write, love, or loathe memoir. This important contribution to a genre that has become a heated topic of debate, in both literary circles and popular culture, is a must read.\"—Emily Rapp, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design; member of the MFA faculty at the University of California, Riverside; and writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Charles Van Doren, “Herb Stempel Was the First to Agree to the Fix”\u003cbr\u003e Jim Bouton, “If We Explain We’re Shooting Beaver, They’ll Understand” \u003cbr\u003e The Transgressive I, the Exculpatory Account\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2 Autobiography and Memoir\u003cbr\u003e Memoir and Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e The Memoir Explosion\u003cbr\u003e Literal Facticity: Does It Matter?\u003cbr\u003e James Frey, “I Honestly Have No Idea”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 Autonarrating Transgression\u003cbr\u003e The “I” and the “Me”\u003cbr\u003e Vocabularies of Motive\u003cbr\u003e Is to Explain to Condone?\u003cbr\u003e The Presentation of Self\u003cbr\u003e Accounts\u003cbr\u003e Techniques of Neutralization: Theory or Concept?\u003cbr\u003e To Whom Are Self-Exculpations Addressed?\u003cbr\u003e In Sum: Neutralizing Deviance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4 Criminal Behavior\u003cbr\u003e Joe Bonanno, “This Is How I Earned My Living”\u003cbr\u003e Edward Bunker, “What Else Could I Do?”\u003cbr\u003e Jack Henry Abbott, “If You Behave like a Man, You Are Doomed”\u003cbr\u003e Jordan Belfort, “\u003ci\u003e$12.5 Million! In Three Minutes!\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e Accounting for Crime\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Substance Abuse\u003cbr\u003e Pete Hamill, “This Is What Men Do”\u003cbr\u003e Susan Cheever, “Drinking Was Part of Our Heritage”\u003cbr\u003e Steve Geng, “I Was Romanticizing Lives of Crime”\u003cbr\u003e William Cope Moyers, “I Was Doomed to Fail No Matter How Hard I Tried”\u003cbr\u003e Accounting for Substance Abuse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6 Sexual Transgressions\u003cbr\u003e Roman Polanski, “Everyone Wants to Fuck Young Girls”\u003cbr\u003e Kerry Cohen, “My Parade of Boys Continues”\u003cbr\u003e Melissa Febos, “I Took Aim and Flicked the Whip toward Him”\u003cbr\u003e Kirk Read, “I Wanted to Be Shirley Temple”\u003cbr\u003e Accounting for Sexual Transgressions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7 Political Deviance\u003cbr\u003e Elia Kazan, “I Was Notorious, an Informant, a Squealer, a Rat”\u003cbr\u003e Norman Podhoretz, “The Theory Circulated That I Had Gone Mad”\u003cbr\u003e Malcolm X, “I Never Have Felt That I Would Live to Become an Old Man”\u003cbr\u003e Cathy Wilkerson, “The Intention Was Not to Cause Carnage but Chaos”\u003cbr\u003e Accounting for Political Transgressions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8 Accounting for Deviance\u003cbr\u003e How They Account for Themselves\u003cbr\u003e Searching for Common Threads\u003cbr\u003e Looking Back\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReference\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039839453527,"sku":"9781439910252","price":68.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439910252.jpg?v=1750945012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/justifiable-conduct-9781439910252","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}