Memory: Fragments of a Modern History
Meehan Crist
Memory:
Fragments of a Modern History
by Alison Winter
University Of Chicago Press
$30.00 List Price
In 1906, a young carpenter named Richard Ivens was accused of murder after a woman’s body was found in a vacant lot behind his Chicago workshop. Subjected to hours of interrogation, he signed a confession, but later retracted it, insisting the admission of guilt was obtained after police caused him to have a “false memory” of the crime. Here was a legal, scientific, and perhaps even philosophical conundrum: Could a person
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