| Author |
Cooper, Becky, author.
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| Title |
We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| OCLC |
2020022711 |
| ISBN |
9781538746837 |
| Publisher |
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020. |
| Description |
499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Britton, Jane, 1945-1969.
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Harvard University -- Students.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
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Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
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Murder victims -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
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Women graduate students -- Crimes against -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
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Women in higher education -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
True crime stories.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The story -- The girl -- The rumor -- The myth -- The echo -- The legacy -- The resolution. |
| Summary |
"A former New Yorker editorial staff member, now Senior Fellow at Brandeis's Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting, Cooper was a Harvard undergrad when she first heard stories about the 1969 murder of graduate student Jane Britton, daughter of Radcliffe's vice president, four decades earlier. Here she unwinds a story that has nothing to do with the love-gone-wrong rumors and maybe even the 2018 case-closed ruling, instead focusing on Harvard's ingrained gender inequality and institutional self-regard"--Library Journal (06/01/2020). |
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"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. |
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