Books Tell You Why, Inc.

First edition/Early printing in Near Fine condition in an alike dust-jacket.

In Crime and the Politics of Hysteria, David C. Anderson examines the use of the story of Willie Horton to change American justice in the early 1980s. Anderson shows how the media, politicians, and the public reacted to the release of the notorious criminal, and how the Horton story helped to create a climate of fear that helped to fuel the rise of the Reagan administration.; 8vo; 291 pages.

Price: $37.00