Ebook: Booked: the Last 150 Years Told Through 366 Mug Shots

Contents; Index of Names; The Mug Shots; Facing the Twentieth Century; Bibliography; Credits; About the Author and Translator.;Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, humorous, often bewildering collection sheds a whole new light on our rebellious century.