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SHADOW MEN

The tangled story of murder, media, and privilege that scandalized Jazz Age America

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Edgar Award finalist writer and cultural historian, James Polchin Ph.D. is a Clinical Professor in Liberal Studies at NYU.
He taught at Princeton University, The New School, The American University and The Creative Nonfiction Foundation.

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