Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America [Paperback]

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.Provocative.Provocative& As much about the alchemy of journalism as urban pathology.Kevin Cook is raising big questions.Cooks restoration helps make Kitty human, not merely iconographic.A fully-realized portrait of Kitty& Readers wont forget that she was a person, not a player in an anecdote.Smart&suspenseful. [Cooks] reporting&is rich and deep.Cook manages to maintain an impressive level of tension&[M]oving&compelling.Kevin Cook rips the cover off an enduring urban myth. Hes done a first-rate reporting job, one that delivers the truth at last about an infamous murder that came to define an age.This is not a good book. This is a GREAT book. I dont think Ive read its compelling equal in twenty years. Every page reveals astonishing new facts about one of the most paralyzing events in the flawed soul of the American character. This is modern history at its storytelling best, ignored at the readers peril. 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,