We Keep the Dead Close
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1969: the height of counterculture; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.
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Back then, I was blind to the idea that an institution could still be destructive even if its members were good people.
This book is a doozy: a meticulously detailed self-led investigation of a fifty-year old unsolved murder case, AND an ambitious, wide-reaching commentary on true crime in general, authorial overreach, women in academia, and elite institutions' privileging of themselves over truth/justice. Recommend!
