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100 1 $aCooper, Becky.
245 10$aWe keep the dead close :$ba murder at Harvard and a half century of silence /$cBecky Cooper.
246 30$aMurder at Harvard and a half century of silence
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bGrand Central Publishing,$c2020.
300 $a499 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 441-499).
505 0 $aThe story -- The girl -- The rumor -- The myth -- The echo -- The legacy -- The resolution.
520 $a"1969: the height of counterculture; the year Harvard would begin the tumultuous process of merging with sister school Radcliffe; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious graduate student in Harvard's Anthrlopology department, would be found bludgeoned to death in her apartment. Forty years later, Becky Cooper, a curious undergrad, will first hear whispers of the story: The dead was nameless. A student had an affair with her professor, and he murdered her in the Peabody Museum. Though this rumor would prove false, it started and investigation that would consume Cooper's life for the next ten years. WE KEEP THE DEAD CLOSE is a narrative of mirrors, misogyny, and murder. It is at once a rumination on the violence and oppression that rules our revered institutions, a ghost story reflecting one young woman's past onto another's present, and a love story for a girl who was lost to history"--Dust jacket flap.
600 10$aBritton, Jane,$d1945-1969.
610 20$aHarvard University$xStudents.
650 0$aMurder$xInvestigation$zMassachusetts$zCambridge.
650 0$aMurder victims$zMassachusetts$zCambridge$vBiography.
650 0$aWomen graduate students$xCrimes against$zMassachusetts$zCambridge.
650 0$aWomen in higher education$zUnited States$xSocial conditions.
650 0$aCold cases (Criminal investigation)$zMassachusetts$zCambridge.
650 0$aSex discrimination in higher education$zUnited States.