Kitty Genovese
The Murder The Bystanders The Crime That Changed America
"Vividly transforms Ms. Genovese from an iconic urban martyr to a three-dimensional protagonist in a case that transformed the criminal justice system." —Sam Roberts, New York Times
In 1964 Catherine "Kitty" Genovese was brutally stabbed to death on her front stoop in plain view of numerous witnesses. Her sensational case provoked an anxious outcry and became the stuff of urban legend. Kevin Cook’s “provocative” (Wall Street Journal) investigation upends the simple story we thought we knew. His unprecedented minute-by-minute reconstruction of the crime shatters the fable of the 38 passive witnesses—a myth perpetuated by the New York Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. For the first time, Cook introduces us to a neighbor who did intervene, and he brings…
The former editor-in-chief of Golf Magazine, Kevin Cook has written for Sports Illustrated, GQ, Playboy, Details, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Portfolio, and many other magazines, and has often served as a talking head on ESPN and CNN. His first book, Tommy’s Honor, won the USGA’s Herbert Warren Wind Book Award as the Best Golf Book of 2007, made Sports Illustrated’s 2007 Books of the Year list, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK.
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