Why They Kill (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Rhodes
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Sociology, current affairs, and biography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Biography, Sociology
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Parents and children, Prisoners, Crime or criminals, Child abuse, Victims, Violence, Fathers, Research
In Why They Kill, Richard Rhodes has written a hybrid book that combines social science and biography. The book is made all the more profound in that it has autobiographical elements as well. Rhodes has previously authored sixteen books, including The Making of the Atom Bomb (1986), which won a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Rhodes also wrote A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood (1990), an autobiographical account of the child abuse he suffered at the hands of his stepmother. It was this personal...
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