Panzram: A Journal of Murder
Carl Panzram, who called himself the "world's worst murderer," wrote these words in a full autobiography and confession he prepared for the one friend in his life-a young prison guard named Henry Lesser. PANZRAM: A JOURNAL OF MURDER, combines these brutally forthright memoirs with the commentary of authors Gaddis and Long, into a compelling chronicle of the forces that engender hate. The authors provide a historical and sociological framework for Panzram's own words, using this uniquely detailed self-analysis by a mass murderer to depict what happens when an intelligent and unbreakable personality that has been interminably and unmercifully abused strikes back in vengeance.
PANZRAM arrives as a gripping warning from America's recent past to our newly repressive era of prison-industrial complex, death penalty abuse, and unprecedentedly high rates of incarceration from a man who walked the halls of Death Row with a blindingly clear vision.
Introduction by Harold Schechter, author of Deranged and Deviant.
(ISBN 1-878923-14-5)
(ISBN 13: 9781878923141)
NOTE: There are 2 different versions of this book with the same ISBN numbers. Different cover and amount of pages.
A disturbing yet totally fascinating book. I'd never heard of this true story, until I stumbled across a documentary released in 2011 called Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance. Brilliant, but yes, a very dark film. Panzram was a serial killer, and an unrepentant career criminal in the 1920's. He was an angry violent man made even more dangerous by years of serving time under merciless penal codes and the prison abuses of the early 20th century. He made one friend in his his bloody
Every now and then you come across something that changes your life something that changes the way you view the world by either enlightenment or just exposure to something that you could never have imagined possible. This book did all of the above for me. I now walk through life differently. Carl Panzram was a turn of the century serial killer. At first, reading the detailed letters he wrote describing in sardonic contrast to the horror that he was printing was repulsing enough to make me slam
Grim and horrifying, but also incredibly enlightening. Many people read true crime to understand what the difference is between a law-abiding citizen and someone who goes out and commits terrible crimes against others. Carl Panzram spells it right out for you, and it's basically the same story arc that brought us Charles Manson, minus all the kooky religious overlay. The story also makes clear that this man could have been reached at many different points in his life, and only one person made
For anyone looking to understand the mind of a sociopath.
This is a book Jordan Peterson has repeatedly referred to as the epitome of misanthropy. Carl Panzram was a terrible man, the type that you could thank god for never coming across. Not educated, but obviously highly intelligent, and used this to create mayhem. Murdering 20+, raping thousands, numerous arson's, and burglaries. He suffered trauma, and when he responded to violence with violence, he was traumatised further. Society could not beat the hated of people from him. Attempts to do so
OK, so I just like people who don't care about anything..even if they are serial killers. Don't ask me why. I think I would rather be a serial killer than a corporate lackey. Wait...I AM a corporate lackey.Interesting and accurate perspective on social conditions around the turn of the 19th century and afterwards, left me understanding why killing people might have been one way out. Just in case I'm ever a suspect in any killing: it's not my way out, and neither is sodomizing men while robbing
Thomas E. Gaddis
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Title | : | Panzram: A Journal of Murder |
Author | : | Thomas E. Gaddis |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Amok Books Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 295 pages |
Published | : | June 2002 by Amok Books (first published January 1st 1970) |
Categories | : | Crime. True Crime. Nonfiction. Biography. Psychology. Mystery. History |
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"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don't believe in man, God nor Devil. I hate the whole damn human race including myself."Carl Panzram, who called himself the "world's worst murderer," wrote these words in a full autobiography and confession he prepared for the one friend in his life-a young prison guard named Henry Lesser. PANZRAM: A JOURNAL OF MURDER, combines these brutally forthright memoirs with the commentary of authors Gaddis and Long, into a compelling chronicle of the forces that engender hate. The authors provide a historical and sociological framework for Panzram's own words, using this uniquely detailed self-analysis by a mass murderer to depict what happens when an intelligent and unbreakable personality that has been interminably and unmercifully abused strikes back in vengeance.
PANZRAM arrives as a gripping warning from America's recent past to our newly repressive era of prison-industrial complex, death penalty abuse, and unprecedentedly high rates of incarceration from a man who walked the halls of Death Row with a blindingly clear vision.
Introduction by Harold Schechter, author of Deranged and Deviant.
(ISBN 1-878923-14-5)
(ISBN 13: 9781878923141)
NOTE: There are 2 different versions of this book with the same ISBN numbers. Different cover and amount of pages.
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THIS SHIT WAS AWESOME. CARL PANZRAM WAS A CULTURED LOW LIFE, LIKE A WHORE WITH A MONOCLE.A disturbing yet totally fascinating book. I'd never heard of this true story, until I stumbled across a documentary released in 2011 called Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance. Brilliant, but yes, a very dark film. Panzram was a serial killer, and an unrepentant career criminal in the 1920's. He was an angry violent man made even more dangerous by years of serving time under merciless penal codes and the prison abuses of the early 20th century. He made one friend in his his bloody
Every now and then you come across something that changes your life something that changes the way you view the world by either enlightenment or just exposure to something that you could never have imagined possible. This book did all of the above for me. I now walk through life differently. Carl Panzram was a turn of the century serial killer. At first, reading the detailed letters he wrote describing in sardonic contrast to the horror that he was printing was repulsing enough to make me slam
Grim and horrifying, but also incredibly enlightening. Many people read true crime to understand what the difference is between a law-abiding citizen and someone who goes out and commits terrible crimes against others. Carl Panzram spells it right out for you, and it's basically the same story arc that brought us Charles Manson, minus all the kooky religious overlay. The story also makes clear that this man could have been reached at many different points in his life, and only one person made
For anyone looking to understand the mind of a sociopath.
This is a book Jordan Peterson has repeatedly referred to as the epitome of misanthropy. Carl Panzram was a terrible man, the type that you could thank god for never coming across. Not educated, but obviously highly intelligent, and used this to create mayhem. Murdering 20+, raping thousands, numerous arson's, and burglaries. He suffered trauma, and when he responded to violence with violence, he was traumatised further. Society could not beat the hated of people from him. Attempts to do so
OK, so I just like people who don't care about anything..even if they are serial killers. Don't ask me why. I think I would rather be a serial killer than a corporate lackey. Wait...I AM a corporate lackey.Interesting and accurate perspective on social conditions around the turn of the 19th century and afterwards, left me understanding why killing people might have been one way out. Just in case I'm ever a suspect in any killing: it's not my way out, and neither is sodomizing men while robbing
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