{"product_id":"justice-and-vengeance-scandal-honor-and-murder-in-1872-virginia-9780692697962","title":"Justice and Vengeance: Scandal, Honor, and Murder in 1872 Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arwen Bicknell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Open Books Publishing (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Open Books Publishing (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Justice and Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e, Arwen Bicknell offers the first full account of the events leading up to the shooting of James Clark by Lucien Fewell and the sensational, headline-grabbing murder trial that followed. Set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, tumultuous Virginia politics, and the presidential election of 1872 featuring Ulysses Grant, Horace Greeley, and protofeminist Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate, Bicknell paints a vivid picture of the evolving South as she traces the families and fortunes of Lucien Fewell, a hellraiser with a passion for drink and for abusing Yankees and scalawags, and James Clark, a rising legal and political star with a wife, a daughter, and a baby on the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA marvelous work of historical re-creation, \u003ci\u003eJustice and Vengeance\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to fascinate anyone interested in crime drama, the Civil War and its aftermath, and the history of Virginia and the politics of the American South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45503239487639,"sku":"9780692697962","price":1770.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780692697962.webp?v=1767162161","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/justice-and-vengeance-scandal-honor-and-murder-in-1872-virginia-9780692697962","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}