Kitty Genovese : the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America /

Kitty Genovese : the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America /

At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world. New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop--a murder the New York Times called "a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change." The victim, Catherine "Kitty" Genovese, became an urba...

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Author / Creator: Cook, Kevin, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Imprint: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Subjects:
Genovese, Kitty, > 1935-1964.
Murder victims > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Murder > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Witnesses > New York (State) > New York.
Police > New York (State) > New York.
Police.
Witnesses.
Witnesses in mass media.
Murder.
Murder victims.
New York (State) > New York.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 1. More Than a Name
  • 2. Opposites
  • 3. Garden Suburb
  • 4. Tigers and Ants
  • 5. Village People
  • 6. She Loves You
  • 7. Ozone Park
  • 8. The 11th Hour
  • 9. Night of the Hunt
  • 10. Postmortem
  • 11. Neighbors
  • 12. Confessions
  • 13. Pleas
  • 14. Questions for the Devil
  • 15. Consequences
  • 16. Calling for Help
  • 17. Jailbreak
  • 18. Memory and Myth
  • 19. Case Studies
  • 20. Revisions
  • 21. Thirty-Three Minutes
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Sources
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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