The youngest ever graduate of the University of Michigan (then age 17), currently a constitutional history student at the University of Chicago Law School, Richard Loeb, 18—quickly followed by his best friend, University of Chicago Phi Beta Kappa graduate, who speaks five languages fluently, an ornithologist with an offer from Harvard Law School, Nathan Leopold, 19—confesses to having brutally murdered Loeb’s second cousin, Bobby Franks, 14, nine days ago.
Richard Loeb, Nathan Leopold, and onlookers
For fun. To see what it felt like. To plan and carry out the perfect crime. To prove that they were superior human beings—Ubermenschen—above the law.
Leopold and Loeb also confess that they were disappointed that it didn’t feel like much. They played cards after.
“Such Friends”: 100 Years Ago… is the basis for the paperback series, “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s. Volumes I through V, covering 1920 through 1924 are available at Thoor Ballylee in Co. Galway, and as signed copies at Pan Yan Bookstore in Tiffin, OH, City Books on the North Side and Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA. They are also on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in print and e-book formats. For more information, email me at kaydee@gypsyteacher.com.
Next month I will be talking about the literary 1920s in Paris and New York at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
If you want to walk with me through Bloomsbury, you can download my audio walking tour, “Such Friends”: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
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