Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America

Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America
Kevin Cook (Author)
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At last, the true story of a crime that shocked the world.

New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop—a murder the New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.” The victim, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of thirty-eight neighbors who “didn’t want to get involved.” Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the “Bystander Effect.”

That’s the narrative told by the Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. But as award-winning author Kevin Cook reveals, the Genovese story is just that, a story. The truth is far more compelling—and so is the victim.

Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese. She was a vibrant young woman—unbeknownst to most, a lesbian—a bartender working (and dancing) her way through the colorful, fast-changing New York of the ’60s, a cultural kaleidoscope marred by the Kennedy assassination, the Cold War, and race riots. Downtown, Greenwich Village teemed with beatniks, folkies, and so-called misfits like Kitty and her lover. Kitty Genovese evokes the Village’s gay and lesbian underground with deep feeling and colorful detail.

Cook also reconstructs the crime itself, tracing the movements of Genovese’s killer, Winston Moseley, whose disturbing trial testimony made him a terrifying figure to police and citizens alike, especially after his escape from Attica State Prison.

Drawing on a trove of long-lost documents, plus new interviews with her lover and other key figures, Cook explores the enduring legacy of the case. His heartbreaking account of what really happened on the night Genovese died is the most accurate and chilling to date.

16 pages of photographs

• Rank: #2311 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .94" h x 6.20" w x 9.61" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Letter to My Daughter

Letter to My Daughter
Maya Angelou (Author)
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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that taught Angelou lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son.

Whether she is recalling lost friends such as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice, Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family.

• Rank: #20677 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-27
• Released on: 2009-10-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .52" h x 5.30" w x 8.00" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century Series)

The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century Series)
Langston Hughes (Author), Arnold Rampersad (Introduction)
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Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem he was a rising young poet--at the center of the "Harlem Renaissance."

Arnold Rampersad writes in his incisive new introduction to The Big Sea, an American classic: "This is American writing at its best--simpler than Hemingway; as simple and direct as that of another Missouri-born writer...Mark Twain."

• Rank: #6693 in Books
• Published on: 1993-08-01
• Released on: 1993-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10" h x 5.40" w x 7.90" l, .75 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 335 pages

Collecting Shakespeare

Collecting Shakespeare
Stephen H. Grant (Author)
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In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug.

Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr.

While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1932.

The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings.

The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.

• Rank: #207116 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-03-25
• Released on: 2014-03-25
• Format: Kindle eBook

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father (Vintage)

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father (Vintage)
Sherwin B. Nuland (Author)
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A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death.

In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.


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• Rank: #11972 in eBooks
• Published on: 2007-12-18
• Released on: 2007-12-18
• Format: Kindle eBook

Babe Ruth: The Inspirational Story of Baseball Legend Babe Ruth (Babe Ruth Unauthorized Biography, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, MLB Books)

Babe Ruth: The Inspirational Story of Baseball Legend Babe Ruth (Babe Ruth Unauthorized Biography, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, MLB Books)
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You're about to discover the incredibly inspirational story of baseball legend Babe Ruth. If you're reading this then you must be a Babe Ruth fan, like me. As a fan, you must wonder how this man was so talented and want to know more about him. Babe Ruth is considered as one of the greatest baseball players of all-time and is credited for changing the way baseball was played. This book will reveal to you much about Babe Ruth's story and the many accomplishments throughout his career.

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• Youth and Family Life
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• Rank: #176614 in eBooks
• Published on: 2014-03-03
• Released on: 2014-03-03
• Format: Kindle eBook

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father

Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
Sherwin B. Nuland (Author)
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A writer renowned for his insight into the mysteries of the body now gives us a lambent and profoundly moving book about the mysteries of family. At its center lies Sherwin Nuland’s Rembrandtesque portrait of his father, Meyer Nudelman, a Jewish garment worker who came to America in the early years of the last century but remained an eternal outsider. Awkward in speech and movement, broken by the premature deaths of a wife and child, Meyer ruled his youngest son with a regime of rage, dependency, and helpless love that outlasted his death.

In evoking their relationship, Nuland also summons up the warmth and claustrophobia of a vanished immigrant New York, a world that impelled its children toward success yet made them feel like traitors for leaving it behind. Full of feeling and unwavering observation, Lost in America deserves a place alongside such classics as Patrimony and Call It Sleep.

• Rank: #3144 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-09
• Released on: 2004-03-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .63" h x 5.18" w x 7.96" l, .51 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

The Haunting of the Gemini: A True Story of New York's Zodiac Murders

The Haunting of the Gemini: A True Story of New York's Zodiac Murders
Jackie Barrett (Author)

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On a sweltering summer day in 1992, the body of Patricia Fonti was found in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Highland Park.

She had been stabbed more than 100 times.

The Zodiac Killer had struck again.

Renowned psychic medium Jackie Barrett is no stranger to visits from the dead. But when the spirit of Patricia Fonti comes to her twenty years after her death, Jackie finds herself caught in an unexpected battle for the restless, schizophrenic soul of a murder victim. Here is Jackie's first-person account of her connection with Patricia Fonti and her murderer, New York Zodiac Killer Heriberto AEddie” Seda, whose early 1990s killing spree paralyzed the city with fear.

In exclusive letters, drawings and recorded telephone conversations from prison, Eddie divulges things to Jackie that have never been made public, including how he killed and why. Her astounding interviews with the man who calls himself AThe Soul Collector” give rare insight into the recesses of a very dark mind. And while Jackie struggles to help Patricia Fonti find peace, Eddie insists he and Jackie are two halves of a whole, that together they make up the astrological sign of the twinsAthe GeminiA

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• Rank: #105820 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-04
• Released on: 2014-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .83" h x 4.30" w x 7.61" l, .38 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 304 pages