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Popular Crime Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

Bill James

The man who revolutionized the way we think about baseball now examines our cultural obsession with murder—delivering a unique, engrossing, brilliant history of tabloid crime in America. Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life and has been int...

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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

It was mentioned alongside 'The Man From The Train', both written by the same author.

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It's called the man from the train by a man who's normally a baseball writer named Bill James, but he also wrote the book popular crime.

— Episode: 106 - Courage Shoulders

Episode: 106 - Courage Shoulders

It was mentioned alongside 'The Man From The Train', both written by the same author.

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It's called the man from the train by a man who's normally a baseball writer named Bill James, but he also wrote the book popular crime.

Episode: 106 - Courage Shoulders

It was mentioned that the author, who is primarily a baseball writer, also wrote this book, Popular Crime.

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It's called the man from the train by a man who's normally a baseball writer named Bill James, but he also wrote the book popular crime.

Freakonomics Radio

Bill James's book, 'Popular Crime', was mentioned in the context of his interest in writing about crime and its impact on social changes, particularly regarding the decline of hitchhiking.

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His latest book is called Popular Crime.

— Episode: 68. The Power of the President -- and th...

Episode: 68. The Power of the President -- and the Thumb

Bill James's book, 'Popular Crime', was mentioned in the context of his interest in writing about crime and its impact on social changes, particularly regarding the decline of hitchhiking.

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His latest book is called Popular Crime.

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