Kitty Genovese : the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America / Kevin Cook.
2015
HV6534.N5 C67 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
Kitty Genovese : the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America / Kevin Cook.
Author
Cook, Kevin, 1956- author.
ISBN
9780393350579 (paperback)
0393350576 (paperback)
9780393239287 (hardcover)
0393239284 (hardcover)
0393350576 (paperback)
9780393239287 (hardcover)
0393239284 (hardcover)
Published
New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Copyright
© 2014.
Language
English
Description
242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number
HV6534.N5 C67 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.152/3092
Summary
"In 1964 Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was brutally stabbed to death on her front stoop in plain view of numerous witnesses. Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and became the stuff of urban legend. Kevin Cook's "provacative" (Wall Street Journal) investigation upends the simple story we thought we knew. His unprecedented minute-by-minute reconstruction of the crime shatters the fable of the 38 passive witnesses--a myth perpetuated by the New York Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. For the first time, Cook introduces us to a neighbor who did intervene, and he brings to life a vibrant and charismatic Kitty, working (and dancing) her way through the colorful, fast-changing New York of the '60s."--Cover, page 4.
Note
"First published as a Norton paperback 2015"--Title page verso.
Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Originally published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) and index.
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Table of Contents
More than a name
Opposites
Garden suburb
Tigers and ants
Village people
She loves you
Ozone park
The 11th hour
Night of the hunt
Postmortem
Neighbors
Confessions
Pleas
Questions for the devil
Consequences
Calling for help
Jailbreak
Memory and myth
Case studies
Revisions
Thirty-three minutes.
Opposites
Garden suburb
Tigers and ants
Village people
She loves you
Ozone park
The 11th hour
Night of the hunt
Postmortem
Neighbors
Confessions
Pleas
Questions for the devil
Consequences
Calling for help
Jailbreak
Memory and myth
Case studies
Revisions
Thirty-three minutes.