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Fair. May contain writing notes highlighting bends or folds. Text is readable book is clean and pages and cover mostly intact. May show normal wear and tear. Item may be missing CD. May include library marks.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. John Katzenbach, Author of In the Heat of the Summer. SUB-TITLE: The Death of Arnold Zeleznik, Age Nine: Murder, Madness and What Came After. BOOK NUMBER: 4066. JACKET DESIGN: Paul Bacon. TV TIE-IN: The case on which this book is based was the basis for the 1982 "60 Minutes" broadcast piece entitled "It Didn't Have to Happen". CONTENTS: CHAPTER ONE: "The Worst Thing..." CHAPTER TWO: Arnold CHAPTER THREE: Fifty-five Degrees CHAPTER FOUR: "No Man Speaks for Me! " CHAPTER FIVE: The New School CHAPTER SIX: Carter's Obsession CHAPTER SEVEN: A Ride on a Bike CHAPTER EIGHT: "I Saw the Boy Come Running" CHAPTER NINE: Only One Side CHAPTER TEN: High Courts, Low Courts, Gains and Losses CHAPTER ELEVEN: A Story Worth $10 Million CHAPTER TWELVE: Tick...Tick...Tick CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "All I Have to Say" CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Jack Denaro's Mystery CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Victory, or a Statement of the Obvious CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Circles EPILOGUE: Bobby at Sixteen. SYNOPSIS: First Born: The Death of Arnold Zeleznik, Age Nine: Murder, Madness and What Came After is a shattering true story of horror and regeneration by the author of In the Heat of the Summer. It is a book that will leave the reader shaking--and cheering. Murder: On December 20, 1974, Carter and Elizabeth Zeleznik and their two sons, Arnold and Bobby, toppled into nightmare. Carter took nine-year-old Arnold into the corridor of their Miami hotel, realized he'd forgotten to leave the key with his wife, and ducked back into the room. He was gone for ninety seconds. Madness: In those few seconds, a newly released mental patient next door heard an inner voice telling him to open his hotel room door and kill what he saw there. He opened his door. He saw Arnold. What Came After: So numbed by horror they literally had to fight for their lives, the Zelezniks embarked on a voyage of survival: a desperate spiritual battle to beat back the darkness and a determined court battle to get someone to admit responsibility for the death of Arnold Zeleznik. With friends and colleagues, and finally more and more alone, they kept on year after year--groping through a thicket of Alice-in-Wonderland laws; taking on the lawyers of first one, then two, state governments; struggling against the waves of despair that threatened to engulf them daily--and they not only survived: they triumphed. First Born is the story of that triumph, and it is more. It is also the story of Vernal Walford, the murderer, apprehended almost immediately, shunted between prison and mental hospital, enmeshed in a system of justice so bewildered by the truly insane that even now it does not know what to do with him--and may well set him free. And it is the story of the author himself, a Miami journalist so disturbed by the Zeleznik case that he spent months pulling together the pieces, following leads, working with the Zelezniks and everyone else involved with the case, until at last he knew what no one else knew: not only what happened in that hotel corridor, but why. As told by him, First Born is a story of transcendent tragedy and redemption, a book about the family, the law, about courage and love and the power of unshakable determination. The word "extraordinary" is used so often it has lost its meaning, but on one thing every reader will agree: First Born is an extraordinary book. John Katzenbach is a featured writer for the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, and the author of the novel, In the Heat of the Summer. Previously, he was the criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and, before that, the Miami News, and his work has appeared in many other newspapers, including the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Daily News, and Newsday. Born in Princeton, New Jersey, he is the son of former Attorney General of the United States...
