Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu

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ISBN 978-0-8101-2974-0Contributors
Publication Date
June 2013
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Page Count
336 pages
Trim Size
5.5 x 9.25
ISBN
0-8101-2974-4
Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu
Winner of 1997Â Carl Sandburg Award
On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.
Reviews
"Fascinating and excellent . . . important not just because it illuminates history, but because at the center of the story is Ioan Culianu, a figure so interesting no novelist could invent him. [In this murder] fiction and fact change places in a deadly game of masks and illusions." --Andrei Codrescu
"Reveals both a fascinating individual's twenty-year-long life-and-death struggle with his conscience, and a violent underground war in Eastern Europe. This is a story not only about the power of freedom of speech and press, but also about the explosive convergence of scholarship and politics, and the very real risks of the unencumbered life of the mind."
—Jeffrey Kittay, publisher, Lingua Franca
—Jeffrey Kittay, publisher, Lingua Franca