The Book Depository If I Did It by The Goldman Family
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Description: If I Did It : Paperback : BEAUFORT BOOKS : 9780825305931 : 0825305934 : 08 Sep 2008 : Get the full story in O.J. Simpson's own words! On July 31, 2007 Federal Court Judge A. Jay Cristol awarded the Goldman family the rights to If I Did It. Thus began one of the strangest odysseys in publishing history. The book, called one of the most chilling things I have ever read by Barbara Walters, skyrocketed up bestseller lists across the country in fall 2007 as the national media relentlessly covered O.J. Simpson's dramatic Las Vegas arrest for armed robbery and kidnapping. Originally written by O.J. Simpson, this edition includes essays by the Goldmans and a member of the Goldman family legal team that reveal the fascinating story behind the bankruptcy case, the book's publication and the looming court proceedings, that would eventually lead to his conviction. In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately acquitted of criminal charges. The victims' families brought a civil case against Simpson, which found him liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole committing battery with malice and oppression. In 2006, Harper Collins announced the publication of a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, Harper Collins canceled the book. The Goldman family views the book as his confession, and has worked hard to ensure that the public will read this book and learn the truth. This is O.J. Simpson's original manuscript, approved by him, with up to 14,000 words of additional key commentary.
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Product ID: 9780825305931
MPN: 825305934
GTIN: 9780825305931
Author: Phoenix
Rating: 5
Review: Even if he didn't do it, why oh why would anyone with any ounce of human sensitivity (or even anyone mad as a box of frogs for that matter!)write a book with a detailed chilling description of them doing it? In the words of Dr.Henry Lee "Something Wong. Something wong." (defence team's Ace card and supposedly a 'blood spatter expert') For people who seek the truth of this case,the pages turn themselves and the hair on the back of your neck WILL stand on end when you get to that chapter. The Goldman's were so right to publish his words. I believe the Goldmans took a very painful road to the publication of this book and I'm amazed at their courage.Courage like that is born not just out of hatred for someone who has damaged you irreparably but also born out of LOVE. Love for their fine boy Ron has steeled their spine to get this chilling read to publication and it IS their right. This book should be bought by anyone who can afford it and passed around to those who can't. Let this family have their say...Let them have their compensation from us.I hope I never have to bear their pain.The book itself deserved to be published so that the world AND that criminally shameful jury can know....He did it alright! I see it like this...Just as O.J says on the night in question -his mind got locked into paranoid preoccupations about Nicole's separateness and he needed to assert his dominant control. It's clear he needed vengeance for perceived narcissistic wounds that she was inflicting upon him -by getting over him.I think she probably did flail her limbs at him in outrage and shock, as the book suggests, when she saw him aggressively sparring with Ron on her pathway. I think when he knocked her brutally to the ground it possibly made Ron physical and then O.J. flipped (he flipped alright) into an altered state of consciousness... killing Ron first and then,realising Nicole had to be silenced, as she'd seen him mow down Ron, he made sure she was never going to tell. He claims "Charlie" helped him... I think he means cocaine...however I'm thinking there WAS the addition of a certain someone ...with a burger... that night who had reasons to fill O'J's head with stories of Nicole... not even knowing the horrors he could trigger in the mind of a latent killer. O.J describes a figure remarkably akin to Othello's Iago, pouring "pestilence" in his ear. To me the narrative of the friend crying in the car was just too real.In years to come the truth may prey upon someone's mind. I wish I could say that I thought O.J. wrote this book out of the need to expunge himself but I think he wrote it to trounce and to maintain his Beverley Hills lifestyle.I'm not sure they have swimming pools in the Nevada prisons? I hope his lawyers hang their heads in shame but I won't hold my breath. Yes we remember who you are...and we know that morality has no home with you.Everyone is entitled to a defence but where is it written that anyone is entitled to a corrupt defence? I'd call that interfering in the course of justice. I wish the Goldman's peace but if they can't have that and they can't have justice I certainly wish them compensation.
Author: youngagain
Rating: 2
Review: Totally OJ’s side! Nicole and Ron never stood a chance. Understand why the Goldman’s went ahead and printed this. It only darkens OJ’s reputation further. To be honest I didn’t enjoy the book because it’s one sided. Everything you have learnt about O.J. he twist back on to others, making it a frustrating read. He paints a picture of a patient, kind, understanding man, who felt sorry for Nicole. Boy can he spin them. For fans of everything linked to this case it should be part of your reading list.
