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The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Ted Gioia
Jan 1, 2000
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In Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rope (1948), based in part on the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924, two students are inspired by the teachings of a Nietzschean prep school housemaster (played by James Stewart in perhaps his most atypical role) to commit a murder. In their zeal to go “beyond good and evil,” they strangle a former classmate, and almost fla…

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