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- ISBN
- 9781586422141
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Steerforth Press
ISBN-10
1586422146
ISBN-13
9781586422141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159927539
Product Key Features
Book Title
Book of Matt : Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Lgbt Studies / General, Media Studies, Student Life & Student Affairs, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Social Science, Education
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-431178
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
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"If you're going to base a civil rights movement on one particular incident, and the mythology about a particular incident, you're asking for trouble, because events are more complicated than most politicians or most activists want them to be... No one should be afraid of the truth. Least of all gay people... Shouldn't we understand better why and how?" -- Journalist Andrew Sullivan "In The Book of Matt, Stephen Jimenez steadfastly deconstructs one of modern America's more heinous, shocking, and despicable crimes. But as so often happens during great journeys of careful reporting, he discovers that the truth is far more complicated, and far more fascinating, than the headlines ever suggested. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song , this is a work of literary true crime that reaches far beyond the case itself to probe deep and troubling recesses of the American psyche." -- Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound on His Trail "Stephen Jimenez's tireless investigation uncovers a shocking new perspective on the murder of Matthew Shepard. A sympathetic but fearless account of what happened on that terrible night outside Laramie, The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." --Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row From the Hardcover edition., "An award-winning journalist uncovers the suppressed story behind the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose 1998 murder rocked the nation. . . . Drawing on both in-depth research and exhaustive interviews with more than 100 individuals around the United States, Jimenez meticulously re-examines both old and new information about the murder [of Matthew Shepard] and those involved with it. . . . As Jimenez deconstructs an event that has since passed into the realm of mythology, he humanizes it. The result is a book that is fearless, frank and compelling. Investigative journalism at its relentless and compassionate best." -- Kirkus Reviews "If you're going to base a civil rights movement on one particular incident, and the mythology about a particular incident, you're asking for trouble, because events are more complicated than most politicians or most activists want them to be... No one should be afraid of the truth. Least of all gay people... Shouldn't we understand better why and how?" -- Journalist Andrew Sullivan "In The Book of Matt, Stephen Jimenez steadfastly deconstructs one of modern America's more heinous, shocking, and despicable crimes. But as so often happens during great journeys of careful reporting, he discovers that the truth is far more complicated, and far more fascinating, than the headlines ever suggested. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song , this is a work of literary true crime that reaches far beyond the case itself to probe deep and troubling recesses of the American psyche." -- Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound on His Trail "Stephen Jimenez's tireless investigation uncovers a shocking new perspective on the murder of Matthew Shepard. A sympathetic but fearless account of what happened on that terrible night outside Laramie, The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." --Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row "I am persuaded by The Book of Matt that we will learn more that is more valuable if we demand the facts, and not a case that is cut to fit a particular agenda... We need a Steve Jimenez to take up the [Trayvon Martin case, to which the book is compared] and devote to it the energy and attention that he devoted to the Shepard murder, to enrich us with the truth." -- Marci A. Hamilton, Verdict From the Hardcover edition., "If you're going to base a civil rights movement on one particular incident, and the mythology about a particular incident, you're asking for trouble, because events are more complicated than most politicians or most activists want them to be... No one should be afraid of the truth. Least of all gay people... Shouldn't we understand better why and how?" - Journalist Andrew Sullivan "In The Book of Matt, Stephen Jimenez steadfastly deconstructs one of modern America's more heinous, shocking, and despicable crimes. But as so often happens during great journeys of careful reporting, he discovers that the truth is far more complicated, and far more fascinating, than the headlines ever suggested. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song , this is a work of literary true crime that reaches far beyond the case itself to probe deep and troubling recesses of the American psyche." - Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound on His Trail "Stephen Jimenez's tireless investigation uncovers a shocking new perspective on the murder of Matthew Shepard. A sympathetic but fearless account of what happened on that terrible night outside Laramie, The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." -Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row, "In The Book of Matt, Stephen Jimenez steadfastly deconstructs one of modern America's more heinous, shocking, and despicable crimes. But as so often happens during great journeys of careful reporting, he discovers that the truth is far more complicated, and far more fascinating, than the headlines ever suggested. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song , this is a work of literary true crime that reaches far beyond the case itself to probe deep and troubling recesses of the American psyche." - Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound on His Trail "Stephen Jimenez's tireless investigation uncovers a shocking new perspective on the murder of Matthew Shepard. A sympathetic but fearless account of what happened on that terrible night outside Laramie, The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." -Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row, "An award-winning journalist uncovers the suppressed story behind the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose 1998 murder rocked the nation. . . . Drawing on both in-depth research and exhaustive interviews with more than 100 individuals around the United States, Jimenez meticulously re-examines both old and new information about the murder [of Matthew Shepard] and those involved with it. . . . As Jimenez deconstructs an event that has since passed into the realm of mythology, he humanizes it. The result is a book that is fearless, frank and compelling. Investigative journalism at its relentless and compassionate best." -- Kirkus Reviews "If you're going to base a civil rights movement on one particular incident, and the mythology about a particular incident, you're asking for trouble, because events are more complicated than most politicians or most activists want them to be... No one should be afraid of the truth. Least of all gay people... Shouldn't we understand better why and how?" -- Journalist Andrew Sullivan "In The Book of Matt, Stephen Jimenez steadfastly deconstructs one of modern America's more heinous, shocking, and despicable crimes. But as so often happens during great journeys of careful reporting, he discovers that the truth is far more complicated, and far more fascinating, than the headlines ever suggested. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song , this is a work of literary true crime that reaches far beyond the case itself to probe deep and troubling recesses of the American psyche." -- Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound on His Trail "Stephen Jimenez's tireless investigation uncovers a shocking new perspective on the murder of Matthew Shepard. A sympathetic but fearless account of what happened on that terrible night outside Laramie, The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." --Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row "I am persuaded by The Book of Matt that we will learn more that is more valuable if we demand the facts, and not a case that is cut to fit a particular agenda... We need a Steve Jimenez to take up the [Trayvon Martin case, to which the book is compared] and devote to it the energy and attention that he devoted to the Shepard murder, to enrich us with the truth." -- Marci A. Hamilton, Verdict
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3092
Synopsis
What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy. Late on the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged "strangers," Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew's story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug trafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred named sources. The Book of Matt is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated -- and daunting., What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard?"The Book of Matt" is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthewwhile following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy. Late on the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepardleft a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged strangers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate. Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard s murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew s story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld ofdrugtrafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred named sources. "The Book of Matt "is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated and daunting."
LC Classification Number
HV6773.52J56 2013
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