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The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
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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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  • Title The Savage City: Race, Murder, and a Generation on the Edge
  • Author English, T. J
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • 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 # 52YZZZ00VZ1T_ns
  • 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)
  • 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.

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