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The Gilded Age novel that helps explain our fascination with Luigi Mangione

  • Written by Max Chapnick, Research Fellow, Boston University
imageThe mystery of human choices, even when circumstances are known, occupied writers like Henry James.Gene J. Puskar/Getty Images

A good-looking young man with a mysterious past carries a loaded gun, ready to kill, on the streets of the world’s financial capital.

This scene not only describes Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of United...

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