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Ballad 08 The Devil Amongst the Lawyers

Name: Ballad 08 The Devil Amongst the Lawyers
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ISBN: 9780312558161

Sharyn McCrumb

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In 1935, when Erma Morton, a beautiful young woman with a teaching degree, is charged with the murder of her father in a remote Virginia mountain community, the case becomes a cause célèbrefor the national press. Eager for a case to replace the Lindbergh trial in the public's imagination, the journalists descend on the mountain county intent on infusing their stories with quaint local color: horse-drawn buggies, rundown shacks, children in threadbare clothes. They need tales of rural poverty to give their Depression-era readers people whom they can feel superior to. The untruth of these cultural stereotypes did not deter the big-city reporters, but a local journalist, Carl Jennings, fresh out of college and covering his first major story, reports what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty. This journey to a distant time and place summons up ghosts from the reporters' pasts: Henry Jernigan's...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2009045768

ISBN 13:

9780312558161