{"id":4071,"date":"2016-03-09T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2016-03-08T21:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T21:16:34","slug":"the-alienist-by-caleb-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4071","title":{"rendered":"The Alienist by Caleb Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4103\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4103\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1039328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4103\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Alienist-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Alienist\" width=\"139\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Alienist-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Alienist.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caleb Carr is a military historian turned novelist.\u00a0 In <em>The Alienist<\/em>, he employs his specialty to paint a stark picture of the underside of New York City, circa 1896.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0&#8220;alienist&#8221; was the popular term\u00a0used for people in the then-budding discipline of psychology.\u00a0\u00a0Carr&#8217;s\u00a0main character uses his skills to develop what we now call a &#8220;profile&#8221; to find a serial killer, stalking the male bordellos of lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>Carr populates his novel with\u00a0prominent people\u00a0from the history\u00a0of \u00a0NYC in the late 19th century.\u00a0 Central to the story is Theodore Roosevelt, in his role as Police Commissioner.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also meet folks like\u00a0author Jacob Riis and J. P. Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>This is a police procedural\u00a0which uncovers the complex social history of NYC\u00a0in an era of rapid social change via immigration, the rise of a super-wealthy class, and class conflict.\u00a0 Carr also pushes the social envelop by making a woman police employee a central character.<\/p>\n<p>For a\u00a0strong taste of life in New York in this era,\u00a0read <em>The Alienist<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Carr is a military historian turned novelist.\u00a0 In The Alienist, he employs his specialty to paint a stark picture of the underside of New York City, circa 1896. An\u00a0&#8220;alienist&#8221; was the popular term\u00a0used for people in the then-budding discipline of psychology.\u00a0\u00a0Carr&#8217;s\u00a0main character uses his skills to develop what we now call a &#8220;profile&#8221; to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4071\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Alienist by Caleb Carr<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}