Description: The Thief-Taker Hangings by Aaron Skirboll Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description After the Glorious Revolution, a not so glorious age of lawlessness befell England. Crime ran rampant, and highwaymen, thieves, and prostitutes ruled the land. Execution by hanging often punished the smallest infractions, and rip-roaring stories of fearless criminals proliferated, giving birth to a new medium: the newspaper. In 1724, housebreaker Jack Sheppard—a "pocket Hercules," his small frame packed with muscle—finally met the hangman. Street singers sang ballads about the Cockney burglar because no prison could hold him. Each more astonishing than the last, his final jailbreak took him through six successive locked rooms, after which he shimmied down two blankets from the prison roof to the street below. Just before Sheppard swung, he gave an account of his life to a writer in the crowd. Daniel Defoe stood in the shadow of the days literati—Swift, Pope, Gay—and had done hard time himself for sedition and bankruptcy. He saw how prison corrupted the poor. They came out thieves, but he came out a journalist. Six months later, the author of Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders covered another death at the hanging tree. Jonathan Wild looked every bit the brute—body covered in scars from dagger, sword, and gun, bald head patched with silver plates from a fractured skull—and he had all but invented the double-cross. He cultivated young thieves, profited from their work, then turned them in for his reward—and their execution. But one man refused to play his game. Sheppard didnt take orders from this self-proclaimed "thief-taker general," nor would he hawk his loot through Wilds fences. The two-faced bounty hunter took it personally and helped bring the young burglars life to an end. But when Wilds charade came to light, he quickly became the most despised man in the land. When he was hanged for his own crimes, the mob wasnt rooting for Wild as it had for Sheppard. Instead, they hurled stones, rotten food, and even dead animals at him. Defoe once again got the scoop, and tabloid journalism as we know it had begun. Author Biography Aaron Skirboll is the author of The Pittsburgh Cocaine Seven and has written about Americas first professional songwriter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Ernest Hemingways last days for American Way magazine, and the history of the phone booth and cell phone etiquette for The Morning News. He lives in Pennsylvania. Details ISBN 0762791489 ISBN-13 9780762791484 Title The Thief-Taker Hangings Author Aaron Skirboll Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 320 Publisher Rowman & Littlefield GE_Item_ID:137143879; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780762791484
Book Title: The Thief-Taker Hangings
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Thief-Taker Hangings : How Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Wild, and Jack Sheppard Captivated London and Created the Celebrity Criminal
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
Subject: Modern / 18th Century, Social History, Journalism, General, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Subject Area: True Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Aaron Skirboll
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
