Full name: Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb

Author: Bernard Lefkowitz Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: True crime, Non Fiction, Mystery, Crime, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375702693 0375702695 0676540643

In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a mentally handicapped girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and 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. Similar books: While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison The Last Stone by Mark Bowden The Cases That Haunt Us by John Douglas Lost Girls by Robert Kolker A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris The Evil That Men Do by Stephen G. Michaud Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Popular Crime by Bill James As If by Blake Morrison The Lost Girls by John Glatt Blind Eye by James B. Stewart Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan A Dark and Bloody Ground by Darcy O'Brien Blood Will Out by Walter Kirn Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt Wicked Beyond Belief by Michael Bilton Low Life by Luc Sante