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We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence  Cover Image Book Book

We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper.

Cooper, Becky, (author.).

Summary:

"1969: the height of 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 Anthropology 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 dead 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 and investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years."--Dust jacket flap.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781538746837
  • ISBN: 1538746832
  • Physical Description: 499 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-499).
Formatted Contents Note:
The story -- The girl -- The rumor -- The myth -- The echo -- The legacy -- The resolution.
Subject: Britton, Jane, 1945-1969.
Harvard University > Students.
Murder > Investigation > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Murder victims > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography.
Women graduate students > Crimes against > Massachusetts > Cambridge.
Women in higher education > United States > Social conditions.
Sex discrimination in higher education > United States.
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
EDUCATION / Higher.
Genre: Biographies.
True crime stories.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Athena Public Library 364.15 COO (Text) 37813000182389 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande 364.152 C776 (Text) 35178001818742 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Grant County Library 364.15 Cooper (Text) 37845000608666 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Hood River County Library 364.1523 COO 2020 (Text) 33892100711333 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
Ontario Community Library 364.152 COOPE (Text) 33330004552347 Adult Non-Fiction Available -
The Dalles Wasco County Library 364.152 COO (Text) 33892006635750 Non-Fiction Available -


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