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The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America by David Stout

2.0

This book has enormously interesting elements but it desperately needed a good editor to tell the author that some stories of the "kidnap years" were more interesting and essential than others. Too often it felt like a catalogue of the crimes, with several chapters devoted to incidents that started to bleed together. I found myself really bored by everything except the Lindbergh story by the end. Such an intriguing topic that deserved a more focused historian.