Kevin Canfield

3 weeks ago | crimereads.com | Kevin Canfield

Rich Cohen’s Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story is about a crime that stunned one of America’s richest towns. The 2019 disappearance of the New Canaan, Connecticut mother of five drew extensive news coverage—an example, some said, of “missing white woman syndrome.” Once again, the media was obsessed with a privileged suburbanite in mortal peril. Meanwhile, crime victims from other racial and socioeconomic backgrounds were largely ignored.

3 weeks ago | startribune.com | Kevin Canfield

A deadly white nationalist rally convulsed a Virginia city in 2017. Deborah Baker's "Charlottesville" comprehensively demonstrates how internet hate-mongering and gun ubiquity are endangering pluralism, civic participation and good-faith debate. Baker, the author of books about Minnesota poet Robert Bly ("Making a Farm"), Britain's erstwhile empire ("The Last Englishmen") and modernist poet Laura Riding ("In Extremis," a Pulitzer Prize finalist), grew up in Virginia.

1 month ago | unionleader.com | Kevin Canfield

”Minnesota’s Most Notorious Mobster: The Making and Breaking of Kid Cann,” By Ron de Beaulieu. Publisher: The History Press, 172 pages. $26. The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld’s arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author’s research unearths a few more.

1 month ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Kevin Canfield

The subject of Ron de Beaulieu's new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld's arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author's research unearths a few more. But history doesn't remember him as "Joe Miller" or "Dr. Ferguson." Instead, writes de Beaulieu - a Macalester College grad who lives in Minneapolis - Blumenfeld is most commonly remembered as " Kid Cann," a handle he "grew to hate."

1 month ago | thederrick.com | Kevin Canfield

The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld’s arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author’s research unearths a few more.