The Alienist (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to change the contributors of The Alienist Sunday, December 6 2009.

• Added a contributor: Caleb Carr: (Primary Author)

Timothy Gray approved Ulrich’s request to combine 26 books, including The Alienist, Sunday, December 6 2009.

Ulrich submitted a request to combine 26 books, including The Alienist, Sunday, December 6 2009.

Ulrich edited the contributors of The Alienist Sunday, December 6 2009.

• Added a contributor: Caleb Carr: (Primary Author)

Ulrich edited the series of The Alienist Sunday, December 6 2009.

• Added this book in the series: Alienist book 1 (Primary series)

Jackie P edited the quotations of The Alienist Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “We're all tillstill running, according to Kreizler - in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil doors, away from the nightmares that contineu to be injected into children's skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in even grater numbers toward those potions, powders, preists, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”John Schuyler Moore

Jackie P edited the quotations of The Alienist Wednesday, October 21 2009.

• Added a quotation: “We're all till running, according to Kreizler - in our private moments we Americans are running just as fast and fearfully as we were then, running away from the darkness we know to lie behind so many apparently tranquil doors, away from the nightmares that contineu to be injected into children's skulls by people whom Nature tells them they should love and trust, running ever faster and in even grater numbers toward those potions, powders, preists, and philosophies that promise to obliterate such fears and nightmares, and ask in return only slavish devotion.”John Schuyler Moore

Shelfari edited the description of The Alienist Saturday, August 1 2009.

• The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels. The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over. Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.

Eileen M edited the first sentence of The Alienist Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Theodore is dead.