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Better to Reign in Hell: Serial Killers, Media Panics and the FBI
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Headpress
Publication date September 1, 2004
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781900486293
ISBN-10 1900486296
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Original list price $19.95
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Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the "serial" sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture. In a decade marked by conservative politics and resurgent fundamental Protestantism, the serial killer was accused of attacking the traditional values underpinning American society and proved a suitable symbolic harbinger to manipulate public fear for political gain. Better to Reign in Hell examines the people and events which led to and perpetuate this panic-notably President Ronald Reagan and the New Right-and the founding of the Behavioral Sciences Unit, as well as the social repercussions the serial killer has on a society imbued with the belief that its origin and destiny has been manifest by God.



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from Headpress (January 3, 2007)
9781900486538 | details & prices | 249 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $18.95
About: Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the serial sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture.
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from Headpress (September 1, 2004)
9781900486293 | details & prices | List price $19.95
About: Credited with superhuman intellect and abilities, the "serial" sex killer emerged in the 1980s as a dominant figure in American popular culture.

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