Michael Lesy

Michael Lesy (born 1945) is an American non-fiction writer. His books, which combine historical photographs with original writing, include '' Wisconsin Death Trip'' (1973), ''Real Life: Louisville in the Twenties'' (1976), ''Bearing Witness: A Photographic Chronicle of American Life'' (1982), ''Visible Light'' (1985), ''Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties'' (2007), ''Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century'' (with Lisa Stoffer, 2013), ''Looking Backward: A Photographic Portrait of the World at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century'' (2017), and ''Snapshots 1971–77'' (September 2021). Lesy grew up in

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''Identity Theory'', September 16, 2003 He received a B.A. in theoretical sociology from

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, an M.A. in American social history from the

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, and a Ph.D. in American cultural history from

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, from 1990 to 2020, and is a Hampshire

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. ''Wisconsin Death Trip'', Lesy's first book, was adapted into a film by James Marsh in 1999. Ironically, Lesy explained in a 2003 interview, "I wanted to make it a movie. But it cost too much to produce. So it was just a poor man’s way of making a movie in book form." '' Wisconsin Death Trip'' was presented on the

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