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McDougall, Sophia
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Fiction
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2011
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Gollancz
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English
β 359 KB
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The Savage City
β Scribed by T. J. English
- Book ID
- 107081016
- Publisher
- HarperCollins US
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 338 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062074966
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economic
distress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963βthe day Martin Luther King Jr. declared ''I have a dream'' on the steps of the Lincoln Memorialβtwo young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer. But it also marked the start of a ten-year saga of fear, racial violence, and turmoil in the cityβan era that took in events from the Harlem Riots of the mid-1960s to the Panther Twenty-One trials and Knapp Commission police corruption hearings of the early 1970s.
The Savage City explores this pivotal and traumatic decade through the stories of three very different...
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