Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, by Kevin Cook
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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, by Kevin Cook
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A new perspective on the murder that has captured America’s imagination for over a half-century―“gripping” (New York Times Book Review).
New York City, 1964. A young woman is stabbed to death on her front stoop―a murder the New York Times called “a frozen moment of dramatic, disturbing social change.” The victim, Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, became an urban martyr, butchered by a sociopathic killer in plain sight of thirty-eight neighbors who “didn’t want to get involved.” Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and launched a sociological theory known as the “Bystander Effect.”
That’s the narrative told by the Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. But as award-winning author Kevin Cook reveals, the Genovese story is just that, a story. The truth is far more compelling―and so is the victim.
Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese. She was a vibrant young woman―unbeknownst to most, a lesbian―a bartender working (and dancing) her way through the colorful, fast-changing New York of the ’60s, a cultural kaleidoscope marred by the Kennedy assassination, the Cold War, and race riots. Downtown, Greenwich Village teemed with beatniks, folkies, and so-called misfits like Kitty and her lover. Kitty Genovese evokes the Village’s gay and lesbian underground with deep feeling and colorful detail.
Cook also reconstructs the crime itself, tracing the movements of Genovese’s killer, Winston Moseley, whose disturbing trial testimony made him a terrifying figure to police and citizens alike, especially after his escape from Attica State Prison.
Drawing on a trove of long-lost documents, plus new interviews with her lover and other key figures, Cook explores the enduring legacy of the case. His heartbreaking account of what really happened on the night Genovese died is the most accurate and chilling to date.
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Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, by Kevin Cook - Amazon Sales Rank: #91662 in Books
- Brand: Cook, Kevin
- Published on: 2015-03-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .70" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, by Kevin Cook From Booklist In the wake of the Kennedy assassination, as America was losing its 1950s innocence and beginning to confront the darker recesses of human behavior, another heinous crime brought the nation’s changing culture into grim focus. In the middle of the night on a dark New York City street, young Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death, her cries for help falling on deaf ears. If any story could be said to “go viral” in those pre-Internet, pre-24/7-cable-news-cycle days, Genovese’s murder captured the world’s attention to an astonishing degree. Headlines of her neighbors’ indifference were as dramatic as those heralding the crime itself. Touted in death as the innocent girl-next-door, Genovese actually wasn’t anything like the portrait painted in fawning newspaper stories, nor was the outrageous apathy of countless witnesses as coldhearted or ubiquitous as the press luridly described. On the fiftieth anniversary of the murder, Cook revisits that tumultuous era and an unspeakable crime that became synonymous with urban indolence and dispassion. --Carol Haggas
Review “Provocative.” (The Wall Street Journal)“Cook is [an] adept storyteller. His peppy knowing style calls to mind pop-culture products from the time of the murder…he is firmly and persuasively in the revisionist camp.” (The New Yorker)“Provocative… As much about the alchemy of journalism as urban pathology.” (Edward Kosner - The Wall Street Journal)“An engrossing true-crime tour de force.” (Kirkus Reviews)“As much social history as true crime, this is an insightful probe into the notorious case.” (Publishers Weekly)“Kevin Cook rips the cover off an enduring urban myth. He’s done a first-rate reporting job, one that delivers the truth at last about an infamous murder that came to define an age.” (Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd and Paradise Alley)“Cook’s restoration helps make Kitty human, not merely iconographic.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)“A fully-realized portrait of Kitty… Readers won’t forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote.” (Michael Washburn - Boston Sunday Globe)“Smart…suspenseful. [Cook’s] reporting…is rich and deep.” (Tampa Bay Times)“[I]mpressive.” (Jordan Michael Smith - Christian Science Monitor)
About the Author A former senior editor at Sports Illustrated, Kevin Cook is the author of Titanic Thompson, Tommy's Honor, Kitty Genovese and The Dad Report. He lives in New York City.
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55 of 57 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Story Flawed by Errors & Lack of Citations By J. Jamakaya This book by Kevin Cook clarifies many misperceptions about the murder of Kitty Genovese but is flawed by errors and lack of citations. It's a fascinating case, and Cook writes in an easy-to-read style. I appreciate that he aims to correct falsehoods about the famous case but I was put off by several things.1) The Genovese case is controversial because of many misstatements of fact in the initial reports of the crime. It seems to me essential that in a book that claims to be a final corrective to these mistakes that the author include clear citations to interviews and documents. There are NO footnotes in this book. I know many folks don't read them, but that's no excuse for a major author and publishing company (Norton for heaven's sake!) to leave them out. In a one paragraph "Note on Sources," Cook says that he unearthed "thousands of pages" of new documents on the Genovese case. It is irresponsible and unprofessional not to cite these sources in more specificity. They are needed to prove the veracity of Cook's research and for future historians. Big fail here.2) Cook seems to speculate at times, making it hard to understand what was speculation and what was fact. Early on, for instance, he references the killer having drinks at a bar where the victim worked. Since this was never brought up again and he does not make clear if a witness told him this, I guess he was just speculating. I am a pretty careful reader, but there are other things like this that left me scratching my head.3) Even though the book is just over 200 pages, it is padded with lots of extraneous info about the context and culture of the early 1960s in America. Context is usually a good thing and this story benefits from some background on urban culture, race relations and gay life (the victim was a lesbian), but to go on for chapters about baseball players, Beatles' playlists and quotes from Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech was too much. I was impatient for him to get on to the Genovese story.4) There are many errors in the book that should have been caught by a fact-checker: the poet Audre Lorde's name is misspelled; George Gershwin did not write "Anything Goes"; "women's lib" could not have been cited as a factor in the 1964 Genovese case as the phrase "Women's Liberation" did not emerge until 1968. When I see errors like this, it makes me wonder about other facts in the book. Given the resources the author and publisher have, this book should have been much better.Finally, Cook gives New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal a free pass by failing to discuss the journalistic ethics of a misreported story that has haunted Americans and distorted our perceptions of crime for half a century.
41 of 42 people found the following review helpful. A well researched book on what has become an urban legend By Travis Winston Churchill is alleged to have remarked "A lie gets half way around the world before the truth gets its pants on". I thought of that saying when it came down to the infamous Kitty Genovese murder of March 13, 1964. The name Kitty Genovese brings up images of neighbors hearing her screams while they pulled up a chair to their windows and watched the murder unfold as if they were watching a TV show. The New York Times infamously proclaimed that 38 of her neighbors saw her being murdered and ignored her cries for help. Nothing could be further from the truth. It turns out that there is a difference between an "eyewitness" (of which there were definitely only three) and “earwitness” who heard something but could not figure out what it was. Many thought it was a drunken spat (there was a bar on Austin Street where the first attack took place) and frankly many of the people who heard something were elderly people who were jolted out of a deep slumber at around 3:30 AM and could not hear the whole thinking correctly as it was a cold night with the windows shut tight. The author does very good research on Kitty Genovese’s short life and of the gay scene of early 1960’s New York City (Kitty was a lesbian and lived with her lover Mary Ann in the apartment in Kew Gardens near where the murder took place) as well as the NYC of the 1964 World’s Fair, and he delves into the character of the sociopath Winston Moseley, a middle class black man with a wife who worked as a nurse, two children, his own home, 5 dogs, a good job and a car - a man though with an inner demon that was dominated by necrophilia. That night Moseley set out to stalk murder and rape a woman and he did just that. It is interesting to contemplate that if the Times did not bring up the false story of 38 witnesses, Kitty Genovese would have been long forgotten.The book is short, well written and to the point – which I like.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Riveting non-fiction that reads like good crime fiction By Helen Recently when I was put in the unfortunate position of having to call the cops on my neighbor who was threatening his wife, it prompted a discussion amongst my relatives. Did I do the right thing? Should I have stayed out of it? My family was split but my cousin brought up Kitty Genovese.Why is she still a household name after so many decades? Kevin Cook examines this story which, all these years later, is still fascinating and relevant. This was not a simple case of dozens of witnesses knowingly ignoring a heinous crime. There were media angles, law enforcement angles, and a full cast of players beyond the residents of her building. Cook deftly weaves this story into a true crime page turner which sheds light on what exactly went on during that infamous night so long ago.
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