Compulsion by Meyer Levin, Orson Wells Film - Leopold & Loeb Account, 1956 HC/DJ

Description: Meyer Levin 1956 Compulsion Orson Wells Film Leopold and Loeb Account HC w/DJ. Shipped USPS Media Mail with Tracking. Compulsion by Meyer Levin Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Simon & Schuster, New York. 1956. 412 pages. Seventh Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Basis for the acclaimed movie directed by Richard Fleischer and featuring Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman. Judd Steiner and Artie Straus have it all: wealth, intelligence, and the world at their feet as part of the elite, upper-crust Jewish community of 1920s Chicago. Artie is handsome, athletic, and popular, but he possesses a hidden, powerful sadistic streak and a desire to dominate. Judd is a weedy introvert, a genius who longs for a companion whom he can idolize and worship. Obsessed with Nietzsches idea of the superhuman, both boys decide to prove that they are above the laws of man by arbitrarily picking and murdering a Jewish boy in their neighborhood. Compulsion reintroduces the fictionalized case of Leopold and Loeb once considered the "crime of the century" to a new generation. This incisive psychological portrait of two young murderers seized the imagination of an era and is generally recognized as paving the way for the first non-fiction novel. Compulsion forces us to ask what drives some further into darkness, and some to seek redemption. INV#0301

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