Savage City, The
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9780061824586
A finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact CrimeOn 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.
| Autor: | English, T. J. |
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| EAN: | 9780061824586 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 512 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | William Morrow |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 09.12.2020 |
| Größe: | 31 × 152 × 229 |
| Gewicht: | 823 g |
