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Beyond the Forty Whacks Lizzie Borden and the Making of an American Legend

by Julia Wolbrook
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235846913
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Serena Capuozzo
  • Publisher Imprint: Serena Capuozzo
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  • Pages: 188
  • Original Price: GBP 11.49
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 223 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Murder / General

On a scorching August morning in 1892, a respectable businessman and his wife were hacked to death in their Fall River home. The prime suspect? Their own daughter, Lizzie, was a Sunday school teacher from a wealthy family who would walk free after one of the most sensational trials in American history.

But that was only the beginning.

In *Beyond the Forty Whacks*, the Borden murders are not the end of the story; they are the explosive first act of a national obsession that has refused to die for more than 130 years. From Broadway stages and Hollywood screens to scholarly debates and macabre tourist attractions, Lizzie Borden has been reinvented again and again: as an avenging daughter, a feminist rebel, a cold-blooded monster, and a tragic prisoner of Victorian respectability.

With gripping narrative power and sharp cultural insight, this book traces how a single unsolved crime became a mirror for America's deepest anxieties about family, gender, class, and violence. Through plays, films, operas, ballets, and fevered public imagination, Lizzie has evolved into something far more potent than any single verdict could contain, a living American myth.

Part riveting true crime, part cultural biography, *Beyond the Forty Whacks* reveals why a quiet spinster with an axe continues to haunt our collective imagination, and why we still cannot look away.

"Some legends refuse to stay buried."

"This is one of them."

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