We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Description: We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence Description: Product Description NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed One of The Best Books of 2020 by NPR's Fresh Air * Publishers Weekly * Marie Claire * Redbook * Vogue * Kirkus Reviews * Book Riot * BustleA Recommended Book by The New York Times * The Washington Post * Booklist * The Boston Globe * Amazon * Goodreads * Buzzfeed * Town & Country * Refinery29 * BookRiot * CrimeReads * Glamour * Popsugar * PureWow * ShondalandDive 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 have to remember, he reminded me, that Harvard is older than the U.S. government. You have to remember because Harvard doesn't let you : 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 twenty-three-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. Review "As an undergraduate at Harvard, Cooper became obsessed with the unsolved murder of Jane Britton, an anthropology student there, in 1969. As Cooper was digging, new . analysis eventually identified a suspect, but the real thrills of the story are the twists and turns that kept the killing a mystery for decades."―New York Times“We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper is a brilliantly idiosyncratic variant of generic true crime. . . While much that Cooper uncovers in her private pursuit of the case is fascinating in itself, not least her interviews with Lamberg-Karlovsky and other 'persons of interest' for whom the case of Jane Britton was never allowed to go cold, it is the revelation of the murderer that is most unexpected."―Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books"Cooper's resolve to excavate the truth about Britton's murder will keep a reader engaged enough to want to follow this case to its unexpected conclusion.”―NPR“[E]xhaustive and extraordinary. . .The most noteworthy element of Cooper’s book might be its reportorial ambition. . .It is a testament to her skills as a writer that she is able to connect the threads of the cold case to larger cultural issues.”―The Washington Post“When Ms. Cooper describes her war room, covered with 'theories and photos, a map of Iran, a blueprint of an apartment building, all stuck to my cork boards with dissection needles,' she sounds like Carrie Mathison of Homeland, flirting with the porous boundary between commitment and mania ... [Jane] is as tantalizing and as fleeting as her smile.”―The Wall Street Journal“Becky Cooper’s gripping literary nonfiction debut. . .admi Payment All payments are accepted through PayPal. Shipping: All shipping is free for the continental United States. Standard FREE shipping takes between 3-5 business days Returns In the event that you would like to return your purchase, we allow returns that are processed within 30 days of receiving your order. Please contact us for a return authorization and the return shipping address.

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Book Title: We Keep the Dead Close : a Murder AT Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Item Length: 9.1in

Item Height: 1.5in

Item Width: 5.5in

Author: Becky Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Topic: Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Murder / General, Violence in Society

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Publication Year: 2021

Genre: True Crime, History, Social Science

Item Weight: 16.2 Oz

Number of Pages: 528 Pages