Lizzie Borden on Trial – Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender Conforti Hardback

Lizzie Borden on TrialMurder, Ethnicity, and Gender\nAuthor(s): Joseph A. Conforti\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700620715, 978-0700620715\nSynopsis\nMost people could probably tell you that Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks, but few could say that, when tried, Lizzie Borden was acquitted, and fewer still, why. In Joseph A. Confortis engrossing retelling, the case of Lizzie Borden, sensational in itself, also opens a window on a time and place in American history and culture.\n\nSurprising for how much it reveals about a legend so ostensibly familiar, Confortis account is also fascinating for what it tells us about the world that Lizzie Borden inhabited. As Confortihimself a native of Fall River, the site of the infamous murdersintroduces us to Lizzie and her father and step-mother, he shows us why who they were matters almost as much to the trials outcome as the actu.