Übermensch
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A murdered boy. Tortoiseshell eyeglasses. A letter written by one young man to another that reads like a lover's spat. One portable Underwood typewriter. Two confessions. Will Babe and Manny live or die?It's the early 1920s and arrogant teenagers Noah Babe Lieberman and Roman Manny Loewe have it all: money, brains, freedom. They reside in the same affluent Chicago neighborhood, come from successful, respectable families, and enjoy privileged lives. Both are intelligent prodigies who graduated high school early. But Roman, an extrovert, is handsome and popular whereas Noah is average-looking and spends most of his time with birds and books. After meeting, they embark on a wild journey of vandalism, burglary, and arson. Their personal relationship escalates, and their criminal acts morph into more sinister behavior as the two flout the laws of the common man and live their version of the Überensch, or superman as defined by Friedrich Nietzsche.One hundred years ago, the world was stunned to learn that Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy, brilliant university students, had confessed to kidnapping and murdering fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks. Why did Leopold and Loeb do it? For pure love of excitement, or the imaginary love of thrills, doing something different, they said.D.L. Scarpe's Überensch fictionalizes the Leopold and Loeb case, focusing on the reason why the gifted teenagers' lives took such an unexpected turn, destroyed three families, and captivated the country in what was dubbed at the time as the crime of the century.