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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780394757070
An exploration of how Edmund Perry, a 17 year old black honors
student from Harlem, was killed soon after graduation by a young
white plain clothes policeman in an alleged mugging attempt.
Disquieting…often poignant (Time), an “engrossing”
(Newsweek) exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined
by the case of Edmund Perry: a seventeen-year-old black honors
student from Harlem who, soon after being graduated from Phillips
Exeter Academy, perhaps the nation’s most prestigious prep school,
was killed by a young white plainclothes policeman whom he and a
companion allegedly tried to mug.
”Mr. Anson is interested in exploring Edmund Perry’s short life,
and especially his education — the irony that someone who had
already traveled so for would end up lying on a sidewalk so dose to
where he had grown up, a cop’s bullet in his belly. Perry had not
only attended Exeter, he had also done well there, and he had also
studied in Spain for a year. He had become friendly with a wide
circle of black and white students and with a number of teachers in
that distinguished northern New England setting …. How could it
happen that someone who spent years in such an environment could
come to such an end? The author sought out Perry’s mother and
father, his friends and former teachers, in Harlem and at Exeter.
Their comments are the heart of this well-told, melancholy story —
so much praise for such a promising life, so much bewilderment and
outrage over its outcome.” — Robert Coles, The New York Times Book
Review
”Compelling…a portrait of ‘cultural schizophrenia’ and a
detailed account of a teenager who tried, unsuccessfully, to keep a
foot in two different worlds — one in a black ghetto, another in
an environment characterized by elitist whites who were unknowingly
insensitive to his concerns.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
”Unfolds like a detective story.” — Chicago Sun-Times
”Profoundly disturbing.” — Kansas City Star
”Concerned, even-handed and conscientious…The point of Best
Intentions is…to challenge the naive assumptions of a system
based upon the myth of a magic carpet”
– Los Angeles times Book Review
”A meditation on a serious issue that’s also a
page-turner.”
– The New York times Review of Books — Review
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