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

We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence Hardcover - 2020

by Cooper, Becky

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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper 1969: the height of the counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthropoloy department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The body was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and he murdered her in the Peabody Museum. Though this rumor would prove false, it started an investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years. We Keep the Dead Close is a narrative 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. Grand Central Publishing, Hardcover, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, 2020
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  • Title We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
  • Author Cooper, Becky
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grand Central Publishing
  • Date 2020
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1090
  • ISBN 9781538746837 / 1538746832
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.6 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Harvard University - Students, Murder - Investigation - Massachusetts -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020022711
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.152

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  • Booklist, 10/15/2020, Page 4
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2020, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/01/2020, Page 58
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/07/2020, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 11/20/2020, Page 0

About the author

Becky Cooper is a former New Yorker editorial staff member and Senior Fellow at Brandeis's Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting. Her undergraduate thesis, a literary biography of David Foster Wallace, won Harvard's Hoopes Prize, the highest undergraduate award for research and writing. Research for this book was supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the International Women's Media Foundation's Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. She is also the author of Mapping Manhattan: A Love (and Sometimes Hate) Story in Maps by 75 New Yorkers (Abrams, 2013).

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