Overview
In 1964 Catherine ""Kitty"" Genovese was brutally stabbed to death on her front stoop in plain view of numerous witnesses. Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and became the stuff of urban legend. Kevin Cook's ""provocative"" (Wall Street Journal) investigation upends the simple story we thought we knew. His unprecedented minute-by-minute reconstruction of the crime shatters the fable of the 38 passive witnesses-a myth perpetuated by the New York Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. For the first time, Cook introduces us to a neighbor who did intervene, and he brings to life a vibrant and charismatic Kitty, working (and dancing) her way through the colorful, fast-changing New York of the '60s.
Full Product Details
Author: Kevin Cook
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.10cm
Weight: 0.218kg
ISBN: 9780393350579
ISBN 10: 0393350576
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 16 March 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
"""Kevin Cook takes the story apart and puts it back together again. His punchy account of this famous event reveals that almost everything we think we know about it is wrong."" -- Daniel Finkelstein, Christmas Round-Ups 2014 - The Sunday Times ""Cook is [an] adept storyteller."" -- The New Yorker ""...well-written and often gripping book..."" -- The Times ""A fully-realized portrait of Kitty... Readers won't forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote."" -- The Boston Sunday Globe ""A grim and fascinating history and discussion of the bystander effect... this book asks hard questions of human nature."" -- Diva ""...the book is brilliantly written, a veritable prose docudrama, full of suspense and tension, despite known outcomes."" -- Human Givens"
Kevin Cook takes the story apart and puts it back together again. His punchy account of this famous event reveals that almost everything we think we know about it is wrong. -- Daniel Finkelstein, Christmas Round-Ups 2014 - The Sunday Times Cook is [an] adept storyteller. -- The New Yorker ...well-written and often gripping book... -- The Times A fully-realized portrait of Kitty... Readers won't forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote. -- The Boston Sunday Globe A grim and fascinating history and discussion of the bystander effect... this book asks hard questions of human nature. -- Diva ...the book is brilliantly written, a veritable prose docudrama, full of suspense and tension, despite known outcomes. -- Human Givens
[I]mpressive. --Jordan Michael Smith
Author Information
A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommy's Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City.
