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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15320974931
EAN: 9780676540642
ISBN: 0375702695
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: April 28, 1998
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: April 28, 1998
Sales Rank: 27096
Studio: Vintage
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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, affluent suburb many Americans dream about. The rapists were its most popular high school athletes. And although rumors of the crime quickly spread through the town, weeks passed before anyone saw fit to report it to the police. 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 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 Year
A Los Angeles Times Prize Finalist
An Edgar Finalist
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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. When they invited her down into the basement rec room of a suburban home, she jumped with joy at being included. The young men raped her--with a baseball bat and a broomstick. In this vividly detailed book, Bernard Lefkowitz brings us into the daily life of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the hometown of Tom Cruise. It's an affluent white community that values propriety, order, discretion, continuity, and a fantasy of the gentleman-athlete. Lefkowitz writes of the boys who raped Leslie: "'These Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mother's dream, every father's pride. They were not only Glen Ridge's finest, but in their perfection they belonged to all of us. 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.
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"Our Guys" is a book that should be required reading in most schools. Especially in high schools across America. The author introduces us to the detailed account of the Glen Ridge raping in 1989, and displays all facets of the story to the reader. Perhaps by reading about a suburban town, like most others in this country, we can all gain a better understanding of the nature of young adults, and the dangers of communities trying to cover up serious crimes for fear of media coverage.
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This book catches your attention within the first 30 pages. The description of how a group of high school athletes violated a developmentally disabled peer with a broomstick and a baseball bat was hard to read. But nonetheless very interesting.
I wondered what the next 400 pages held if the author had described the event already. The rest of the book describes the town of Glen Ridge, where the alleged rape took place. The author describes the boys behavior, bizarre masturbation in classrooms, ... Read More
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I live less than a block away from Glen Ridge, NJ, so naturally, I was very interested to read this disturbing account describing high school jocks sexually assaulting, in a brutal manner, a retarded girl in the basement of the house where two of the perpetrators lived. I still recall reading about the incident in the news (at the time I lived in NYC), and wondering how kids could be so cruel.
In "Our Guys," Bernard Lefkowitz does an admirable job at covering some central themes surrounding ... Read More
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Horrific tale of the brutal 1989 gang rape of a mentally disabled teen committed by a group of New Jersey high school star athletes and a condemnation of the bullying and jock culture that spawned it.
This true story tells how the local community, the school board and the police sought to cover up and minimize their actions by demonizing the victim.
Curt Rowlett,
Author of Labyrinth13
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A disturbing journalistic account of a gang rape of a mentally retarded girl by athletes in an upper-class New Jersey town. Bernard Lefkowitz doesn't just report the "facts" of the crime, as in many books in the "true crime" genre. He also analyzes the culture of an upper-class community to illustrate the masculine norms that fuel such crimes and hamper reporting and prosecution. Indeed, one of the most astonishing aspects of this case was that the elite circle of teenagers at the local high school all knew ... Read More
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