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Belkin, Lisa.
Genealogy of a Murder
[OverDrive] :
Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night.
W. W. Norton & Company,
2023.
True Crime.
Great Depression.
Rehabilitation.
Multigenerational.
cop.
lawyer.
convict.
american dream.
choices.
1960.
20th century History.
coincidences.
maximum-security prison.
Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 14MB.
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Biography & Autobiography.
True Crime.
Nonfiction.
HTML:<p><strong>A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book for May 2023<br /> <br /> The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the murder of a police officer.</strong></p> <p>Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man—a prisoner out on parole—had called him only days before. By helping his former charge and trainee, the doctor, a believer in second chances, may have inadvertently helped set the murder into motion. And with that one phone call, may have sealed a policeman's fate.</p> <p>Alvin Tarlov, David Troy, and Joseph DeSalvo were all born of the Great Depression, all with grandparents who'd left different homelands for the same American Dream. How did one become a doctor, one a cop, and one a convict? In Genealogy of a Murder, journalist Lisa Belkin traces the paths of each of these three men—one of them her stepfather. Her canvas is large, spanning the first half of the 20th century: immigration, the struggles of the working class, prison reform, medical experiments, politics and war, the nature/nurture debate, epigenetics, the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, and the history of motorcycle racing. It is also intimate: a look into the workings of the mind and heart.</p> <p>Following these threads to their tragic outcome in July 1960, and beyond, Belkin examines the coincidences and choices that led to one fateful night. The result is a brilliantly researched, narratively ingenious story, which illuminates how we shape history even as we are shaped by it.</p>.
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