We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
By: Becky Cooper
3.73
Format: 501 pages, Hardcover
Dive into a true crime narrative of an unsolved 1969 murder at Harvard, of obsession and love for …
Want to Read $ 12.99"Back then, I was blind to the idea that an institution could still be destructive even if its members were good people."-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
"Back then, I was blind to the idea that an institution could still be destructive even if its members were good people."-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
"For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. [...] Truth lies in a progressive dilating of the meaning [...] up to the point at which it explodes. - Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques"-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
"For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. [...] Truth lies in a progressive dilating of the meaning [...] up to the point at which it explodes. - Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques"-Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
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