All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

Kate Winkler Dawson

320 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history science true crime dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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By 1871 Rulloff sat chained in his cell—a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century "mindhunters" tried to understand what made him tick. From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyze the source of his madness) to neurologists...

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