The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge Paperback - 2012
by English, T. J
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Through the stories of three desperate men--an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop, and a militant Black Panther--English tells a story of race, violence, and urban chaos in 1960's New York City.
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Details
- Title The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
- Author English, T. J
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 528
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2012-03-27
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 004-26JLY17-WDTX
- ISBN 9780061824586 / 0061824585
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.04 x 0.97 in (22.86 x 15.34 x 2.46 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010052270
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.109
From the rear cover
A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
On August 28, 1963--the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial--two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. The so-called Career Girls Murders case sent ripples of fear throughout the city as police scrambled to find the killer. But it also marked the start of a ten-year saga of fear, racial violence, and turmoil in the city--as events progressed from the Harlem riots of the mid-1960s to the Panther Twenty-one trials and police corruption hearings of the early 1970s. The Savage City explores this traumatic decade through the stories of three very different men: George Whitmore Jr., an innocent black teenager coerced into confessing to murder; Bill Phillips, a brazenly crooked officer whose public testimony sparked the largest scandal in NYPD history; and Dhoruba Bin Wahad, a founding member of New York's Black Panther Party, caught in the crossfire as the conflict between the Panthers and the police escalated into open warfare.
