Title We keep the dead close : a murder at Harvard and a half century of silence / Becky Cooper.

Publication Info.	New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2020.
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Edition	First edition.
Description	499 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-499).
Contents	The story -- The girl -- The rumor -- The myth -- The echo -- The legacy -- The resolution.
Summary	"1969: the height of counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthrlopology department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The dead was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and her murdered her in the Peabody Museum. Though this rumor would prove false, it started and investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a narrative of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history"--Dust jacket flap.
Subject	Britton, Jane Sanders, 1945-1969.
	Harvard University -- Students.
	Murder -- Investigation -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
	Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
	Murder victims -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography.
	Women graduate students -- Crimes against -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
	Women in higher education -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Sex discrimination in higher education -- United States.
	TRUE CRIME / Murder / General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory.
	EDUCATION / Higher.
	Harvard University. (OCoLC)fst00528983
	Cold cases (Criminal investigation) (OCoLC)fst01736451
	Murder -- Investigation. (OCoLC)fst01029788
	Murder victims. (OCoLC)fst01029809
	Sex discrimination in higher education. (OCoLC)fst01114426
	Students. (OCoLC)fst01136041
	Massachusetts -- Cambridge. (OCoLC)fst01205363
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	True crime stories. (OCoLC)fst01919985
	Biographies.
	True crime stories.
Added Title	Murder at Harvard and a half century of silence
ISBN	9781538746837 (hardcover)
	1538746832 (hardcover)

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