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We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

Becky Cooper

1969: the height of counterculture; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.

True Crime & JusticeTrue Crime & Justice · medium confidenceTrue Crime & Justice81 signalsLlm Classifier: True Crime & Justice -> True Crime & JusticeKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryKeyword Classifier: Politics & Government -> Politics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & ViolenceDeath, Memory & CommemorationEducation & UniversitiesPresidency & Executive Power

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize2021FinalistSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Jane Britton80%
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    • J. Boyd Britton45%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Harvard University75%
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    • Radcliffe55%
    • Cambridge, Massachusetts70%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.