UGLY PREY: AN INNOCENT WOMAN AND THE DEATH SENTENCE THAT SCANDALIZED JAZZ AGE CHICAGO

Book ID/图书代码： 12580018C00103

English Summary/英文概要： An Italian immigrant who scraped together a living on her primitive family farm, Sabella Nitti was arrested in 1923 for the murder of her missing husband. Within two months, despite no evidence and no witnesses, she was found guilty and became the first woman ever sentenced to hang in Chicago. UGLY PREY leads readers through Sabella’s sensational case, showing how she was the target of an obsessed deputy sheriff and the victim of a faulty legal system. She was also—to the men who convicted her and the reporters fixated on her—ugly. For that unforgiveable crime, the media painted her as a hideous, dirty, unpredictable immigrant. Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi brings to life the sights and sounds of 1920s Chicago—its then-rural outskirts, downtown halls of power, and headline-making crimes and trials, including those of two other women (who would inspire the musical and film Chicago) also accused of killing the men in their lives. Featuring an ambitious journalist who demonized Sabella with her reports, and a brilliant, beautiful lawyer who humanized her with a jailhouse makeover, UGLY PREY is both a page-turning courtroom drama and an incisive look at the intersection of gender, ethnicity, class, and the American justice system.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Sabella Nitti是一名意大利移民，她在家庭农场勉强维持生计，1923年因谋杀了她失踪的丈夫而被捕。两个月后，尽管没有证据，也没有证人，她还是被判有罪，成为芝加哥第一个被判绞刑的女人。《丑陋的猎物》通过Sabella的轰动案件，向读者展示了Sabella是如何成为副警长的目标以及错误的法律制度的受害者。对于那些宣判她有罪的人和关注她的记者来说，她也是丑陋的。媒体将她描绘成一个丑陋、肮脏的移民……本书中，作者Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi还原了20世纪20年代芝加哥的景象和声音，市中心的权力大厅，头条新闻的犯罪和审判，其中包括另外两名女性，她们也被指控谋杀。本书的故事围绕一名雄心勃勃的记者（通过她的报道使Sabella妖魔化）和一名聪明、美丽的律师展开，《丑陋的猎物》既是一部扣人心弦的戏剧作品，又是关于性别、种族、阶级以及美国司法体系的深度审视。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“本书中，作者Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi围绕暴力、背叛和不公正，讲述了一个令人着迷而又毛骨悚然的故事：美国人愿意相信文盲、贫穷的移民会犯下罪行，仅仅是因为他们的身份，而不是他们究竟做了什么。”——Kate Clifford Larson

“本书语言优美，调查充分，堪称新闻调查业的典范。Sabella Nitti的故事是一个极好的谜团，体现了20世纪20年代芝加哥爵士时代厌恶女性、真正的犯罪、妇女权利、移民偏见和司法系统中不平等现象。”——Jeffrey Gusfield

“Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi讲述了一个长期被忽视的故事——一个关于阶级、恐惧和正义剥夺的故事。她严谨的历史调查令人震惊和感动。本书有很多东西可以告诉我们，例如，我们当时的身份以及今天的处境。”——Douglas Perry

“本书围绕当代轰动的芝加哥审判，有助于读者了解案件的重要性。”--《图书馆期刊》

“Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi’s riveting and creepy tale of violence, betrayal, and injustice is an uncomfortable yet all-too-familiar story of anxious Americans’ willingness to believe that illiterate, poor immigrants can be guilty of a crime because of who they were, not what they did.” —Kate Clifford Larson, author of The Assassin’s Accomplice: Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln

“An elegantly researched and beautifully written example of investigative journalism. Sabella Nitti’s story is a cracking-good mystery. It’s a monument to Jazz-era misogyny, true crime, women’s rights, immigrant prejudice, and the brutal inequities in the system of jurisprudence in 1920s Chicago.”—Jeffrey Gusfield, author of Deadly Valentines: The Story of Capone’s Henchman “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn and Louise Rolfe, His Blonde Alibi

"Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi has told a long-neglected story that needed telling—a story about class, fear of the Other, and justice denied. Her rigorous history is shocking and moving. It has a lot to tell us about both who we were then and who we are today." —Douglas Perry, author of The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago

"The author’s inclusion of contemporary sensational Chicago trials helps readers place the importance of the case. VERDICT For lovers of historical true crime." —Library Journal

“Lucchesi’s writing is lean and vivid as she recreates Nitti’s trial as well as the legal and social issues it put in the spotlight.”—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

About the Author/作者介绍： Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi曾为《芝加哥论坛报》、《纽约时报》、《洛杉矶时报》等杂志供稿。她经常在大学和专业机构就与历史、媒体和芝加哥爵士时代的女性相关的话题发表演说。

Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi has contributed to the Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, among others. She frequently speaks to universities and professional organizations on topics related to women in history, media, and Jazz Age Chicago.

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