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Our Guys By Bernard Lefkowitz Cover Image
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Description


A shocking true-crime story of America's jock culture and the hidden world of unrestrained adolescent sexuality in one seemingly idyllic suburban town.

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.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Prize Finalist
An Edgar Award Finalist

About the Author


Bernard Lefkowitz, an Edgar award-winning author, has written three earlier books on social issues, including Tough Change: Growing Up on Your Own in America. He teaches journalism at Columbia University, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His articles have appeared in  Esquire, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New York, Psychology Today, Ladies' Home Journal, The Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and  The Los Angeles Times.

Praise For…


“Riveting…. In a way that makes for compulsive reading, Lefkowitz has exposed the substrata of evil in a seemingly idyllic town. Most troubling of all, you come away with the realization that what happened in Glen Ridge could happen anywhere.”
--Jonathan Harr, author of A Civil Action
 
“One of the most essential…reads in recent memory.”
--Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 
“Heartbreaking…. A brave and unequivocating book, as important as Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will.”
--Newsday
 
“Extraordinary. A calm, methodical, painstakingly researched, and important book that should be read by parents and educators alike.”
--The New York Times Book Review
Product Details
ISBN: 9780375702693
ISBN-10: 0375702695
Publisher: Vintage
Publication Date: April 28th, 1998
Pages: 528
Language: English
Series: Vintage