Dan Kennedy

  • Cover of A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
    Politics December 3, 2012

    Prosecutors, a judge, and a jury put Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars more than three decades ago for the murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. But according to Errol Morris, he’s been kept there by the power of narrative. “You can escape from prison, but how do you escape from a convincing story?” asks Morris in his new book, A Wilderness of Error.