| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Canada and the United States

Theodore Hamm. Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948–1974. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2001. Pp. xi, 209. $16.95.

Forty-two years ago, Caryl Chessman was executed in the San Quentin gas chamber for sexually assaulting two Los Angeles women in 1948. The Chessman case engendered enormous national and international anti-capital punishment sentiment, more so than any other modern case. Theodore Hamm has written a fascinating and detailed account of the Chessman case. Thankfully the book is not about guilt or innocence. Instead, Hamm uses the Chessman case to explore the politics of the death penalty in California and the United States in the years after World War II. Hamm brilliantly portrays Chessman as the darling of the champions for rehabilitation and the New Left movement. . . .

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