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.
General
Imprint: |
William Morrow
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
March 2012 |
Authors: |
T.J. English
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Dimensions: |
229 x 153 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
528 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-182458-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
|
LSN: |
0-06-182458-5 |
Barcode: |
9780061824586 |
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