Our Guys
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.22 (971 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375702695 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Long read, well worth it." according to OhioWolverine. Yes as some other reviewers mentioned it is a long book. It needs to be in order to dissect the sickness of this community. In addition to the main storyline, the story of "Ryan's Wreck" also made me sick to my stomach. Who thinks it is OKAY to do such things?! This book delves deeply into "privilege." I live near a community very similar to Glen Ridge. This author is spot on in descriptions of such areas. What floors me is how many o. "insightful and disturbing analysis of a culture that exists" according to A Customer. I grew up in a community next to Glen Ridge that modeled similar values to those in the book. I left in '67 to join the Peace Corps and my own beliefs that the values portrayed in those seemingly perfect lives were self serving and morally wrong were affirmed by my experiences in the world. I mistakenly moved back to another neighboring community next to Glen Ridge from New York when I had a child twenty years later. Like the Fabers*,. A frightening expose of life in suburbia C. I. McCabe This book exposes the dark and frightening underside of a life of supposed tranquility in the lily white and privilged confines of suburbia, and details how "the boys will be boys" mentality led to the awful rape of a retarded girl by high school jocks and how a town that glorified its male, so-so high school athletes, could somehow defend the conduct of the jock-rapists and could blame the victim as a slut and a Lolita seductress. Co
And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. The result is not just a wrenching story of crime and punishment, but a hauntingly nuanced portrait of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality.A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Los Angeles Times Prize FinalistAn Edgar Finalist. What made these boys capable of brutalizing a girl that some of them had known since childhood? Why did so many of their elders deny the rape and rally around its perpetrators? To solve this riddle, the Edgar award-winning author Bernard Lefkowitz conducted years of research and more than two hundred interviews. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and gang-raped her. Glen Ridge was the kind of peaceful, a
They were Our Guys." What's ultimately most shocking about this crime is how ordinary it was, how predictable--how in one way or another it's happening now, all across America. The young men raped her--with a baseball bat and a broomstick. They were not only Glen Ridge's finest, but in their perfection they belonged to all of us. Lefkowitz writes of the boys who raped Leslie: "'These Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mother's dream, every father's pride. Leslie, a sweet-natured young woman with the mental age of an 8-year-old, just wanted to be friends with the high school football stars. It's an affluent white community that values propriety, order, discretion, continuity, and a fantasy of the gentleman-athlete. When the