The Last Gasp: The Rise and Fall of the American Gas Chamber by Scott Christianson - 2010-07-12

University of California Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

University of California Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiv, 325pp. Book presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light toning to edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Last Gasp takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and provocative new findings. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a "humane" method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry,… Read More

Berkeley. 2010. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780520255623. 325 pages. hardcover. Cover design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: United States History Military History Politics Crime Sociology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Prize-winning, anti-death penalty author Scott Christianson charts the first murky history of the use of the gas chamber in the US and exposes some shocking facts. Execution by gas was really an American invention as the chemical warfare industry looked to other uses for its technology after WWI. The world's first gas execution was of a Chinese immigrant in Nevada in the 1920s. American Progressives and Eugenecists supported it, and by 1935, America's Nobel Prize-winning physician Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, was calling for criminals and the mentally ill to be, 'disposed of in small euthanasia institutions supplied with proper gases.' US companies collaborated with Germany in developing the gas chamber, and in… Read More

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Hardback. New. First constructed in Nevada in 1924, the gas chamber, a method of killing sealed off and removed from the sight and hearing of witnesses, was originally touted as a 'humane' method of execution. Delving into science, war, industry, medicine, law, and politics, the author overturns this mythology for good.

University of California Press, 2010-07-12. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Univ of California Pr, 2010. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 344 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.

Univ of California Pr, 2010. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 344 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches.