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We Keep the Dead Close
- A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
- Narrateur(s): Becky Cooper
- Durée: 15 h et 47 min
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Description
A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour
Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard and an "exhilarating and seductive" (Ariel Levy) narrative of obsession and love for a girl who dreamt of rising among men.
You have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the US government. You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you forget.
1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.
Forty years later, Becky Cooper a curious undergrad, will hear the first whispers of the story. In the first telling the body was nameless. The story was this: a Harvard student had had an affair with her professor, and the professor had murdered her in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology because she'd threatened to talk about the affair. Though the rumor proves false, the story that unfolds, one that Cooper will follow for ten years, is even more complex: a tale of gender inequality in academia, a "cowboy culture" among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims. We Keep the Dead Close is a memoir 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.
*Special audiobook bonus PDF includes photos and source notes*
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing, We Keep the Dead Close is a vivid account of a notorious murder at Harvard that had remained unsolved for fifty years, and a meditation on the stories that we tell ourselves about violence. Cooper is a methodical, obsessive and very companionable sleuth, who ushers us through the many twists and turns in her own investigation until she arrives at a solution. In a deft touch, she interrogates not just the evidence, witnesses and suspects, but her own biases and assumptions, as well." (Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times best-selling author of Say Nothing)
"Meticulously reported and sensitively written, We Keep the Dead Close is top-of-the-line true crime, fortified with shrewd intellectual rigor and acute moral clarity. This case became Becky Cooper's obsession, and before long, you'll be obsessed, too." (Robert Kolker, author of the number one New York Times best seller Hidden Valley Road)
"We Keep the Dead Close is the most amazing true crime book I have read where the identity of the person responsible was not revealed until the end. It's the true crime story everyone will be talking about next year." (BookRiot)
Ce que les auditeurs disent de We Keep the Dead Close
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Roberta W
- 2022-12-09
Very thorough
Listened to this all in one day, at 1.5x. One of those cases when I couldn’t stop listening. I was fully absorbed. Like how the author took you on her journey of discovery over 10 years. Great example of how, in the absence of information, we create constructs. Thought provoking!
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Gayle
- 2020-11-17
Dena Vue All Over Again. We Keep the Dead Close
I was angered, depressed, and upset that this sort of sexual violence prevails in our universities, places of business, subways, etc. I was pawed by my first boss, a bank president when I was 17 and sexually harassed at my last job at a university. I am afraid that the violence and deaths are increasing and for all the supposed awareness young men and women should have today, the extent of the violence and even death keep happening. It also seems that covering it up, protecting professors and those in power is more important than our students' physical and emotional wellbeing. At first I thought this book was about the young woman who was bludgeoned to death by her boyfriend but no, that was a girl attending Yale. It's all so sad and seemingly neverending. The book is well written, and well researched and as frustrating as the subject is it is eye opening. Read and weep. GM
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire4 out of 5 stars
- Candice S.
- 2023-05-16
Interesting, Well Researched Cold Case
This was a true crime book that sat on my shelf for some time before I decided to tackle it via audiobook. It is certainly well researched, and well written. The case is interesting, especially with the added element of historical cold case that has taken on an almost ghost-story quality on campus. But it does run maybe a tad too long with all the red herring suspects and feels a little long on the back end once the killer is revealed.
A good one nonetheless for true crime junkies.
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