| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago. By Simon Baatz. (New York: HarperCollins, 2008. xvi, 541 pp. $27.95, ISBN 978-0-06-078100-2.)

When I was growing up in Chicago, parental prohibitions against speaking to strangers were often followed by the statement: "Remember little Bobby Franks." As childhood lessons go, it was far more compelling than vague warnings about "Mr. Stranger Danger." In 1924, fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was kidnapped in broad daylight and subsequently killed. He had been snatched off a city sidewalk less than a mile from the house where I grew up many years later. Rarely is history so concrete or its moral so practical.

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