| A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald Contributor(s): Morris, Errol (Author), Pruden, John (Narrated by) |
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ISBN: 1452659370 ISBN-13: 9781452659374 Publisher: Tantor Audio
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: MP3 CD - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2012 * Out of Print * |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - General |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.36" W x 7.53" L (0.20 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1970's - Geographic Orientation - North Carolina - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian, Unabridged |
| Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/28/2013 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonald's pregnant wife and two young daughters. The word pig was written in blood on the headboard in the master bedroom. As MacDonald was being loaded into the ambulance, he accused a band of drug-crazed hippies of the crime.So began one of the most notorious and mysterious murder cases of the twentieth century. Jeffrey MacDonald was finally convicted in 1979 and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling books-including Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer, along with a blockbuster television miniseries-have attempted to solve the MacDonald case and explain what it all means.In A Wilderness of Error, Errol Morris, who has been investigating the case for nearly two decades, reveals that almost everything we know about that case is ultimately flawed, and an innocent man may be behind bars. In a masterful reinvention of the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the haze of myth that still surrounds these murders. Drawing on court transcripts, lab reports, and original interviews, Morris brings a complete forty-year history back to life and demonstrates how our often desperate attempts to understand and explain an ambiguous reality can overwhelm the facts.A Wilderness of Error allows the listener to explore the case as a detective might, by confronting the evidence as if for the first time. Along the way Morris poses bracing questions about the nature of proof, criminal justice, and the media, and argues that MacDonald has been condemned not only to prison, but also to the stories that have been created around him. In this profoundly original meditation on truth and justice, Errol Morris reopens a famous closed case and reveals that, forty years after the murder of MacDonald's family, we still have no proof of his guilt. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morris, Errol: - Errol Morris, a world-renowned filmmaker, is the Academy Award-winning director of The Fog of War and the author of Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography.Pruden, John: - John Pruden is a professional voice actor who records audiobooks, corporate and online training narrations, animation and video game characters, and radio and TV commercials. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner, John has a solid creative foundation from which to draw for his intelligent audiobook narrations. |
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