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We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper.
Van Pelt Library HV6534.C24 C55 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Becky, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britton, Jane, 1945-1969.
- Britton, Jane.
- Harvard University--Students.
- Harvard University.
- Murder--Investigation--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Murder.
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Cold cases (Criminal investigation).
- Murder victims--Massachusetts--Cambridge--Biography.
- Murder victims.
- Women graduate students--Crimes against--Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Women graduate students.
- Women in higher education--United States--Social conditions.
- Women in higher education.
- Sex discrimination in higher education--United States.
- Sex discrimination in higher education.
- Social conditions.
- Murder--Investigation.
- United States.
- Students.
- Massachusetts--Cambridge.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- True crime stories.
- Physical Description:
- 499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Murder at Harvard and a half century of silence
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
- Summary:
- "1969: the height of counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The dead was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and he murdered her in the Peabody Museum. Though this rumor would prove false, it started an investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years. We Keep The Dead Close is a narrative of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history"--Dust jacket flap.
- Contents:
- The story
- The girl
- The rumor
- The myth
- The echo
- The legacy
- The resolution.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-499).
- ISBN:
- 9781538746837
- 1538746832
- OCLC:
- 1107357300
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