A Handbook on Hanging by Duff, Charles

A Handbook on Hanging (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780940322677)

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A Handbook on Hanging by Duff, Charles

A Handbook on Hanging

$19.95
A Handbook on Hanging by Duff, Charles

A Handbook on Hanging

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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A Handbook on Hanging is a Swiftian tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilization: the hangman. With barbed insouciance, Charles Duff writes not only of hanging but of electrocution, decapitations, and gassings; of innocent men executed and of executions botched; of the bloodlust of mobs and the shabby excuses of the great. This coruscating and, in contemporary America, very relevant polemic makes clear that whatever else capital punishment may be said to be--justice, vengeance, a deterrent--it is certainly killing.

Author: Charles Duff
ISBN-10: 0940322676
ISBN-13: 9780940322677
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 10/31/1999
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.01w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2001 pg. 139
By Charles Duff
By Charles Duff
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Charles Duff (1894-1966) served as an officer in the British Merchant Navy during World War I and then in the intelligence division of the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service. After retiring, he taught linguistics and languages in London and Singapore while writing travel guides, histories, satires, and a series of textbooks.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was a British-American journalist and social critic. Known for his confrontational style and contrarian views on a range of social issues, Hitchens was a frequent contributor to The Nation, The Atlantic, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. Hitchens recounts his struggle with esophageal cancer in Mortality, which was published in 2012.

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