Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780394757070)

A complex, poignant exploration of racial attitudes in America, as illumined by the case of Edmund Perry. Perry, a seventeen-year-old black honors student from Harlem, was fatally shot by a young white plainclothes policeman in 1985 in an alleged mugging attempt. Perry had recently graduated from Philips Exeter Academy and was to attend Stanford University that fall. The shooting and the subsequent case, in which Edmund's elder brother Jonah, an undergraduate at Cornell University, was accused, tried, and found not guilty, drew national headlines and was the subject of heated debate among black and white communities alike. Using interviews with Perry's parents, friends, and former teachers in Harlem and at Exeter, journalist Robert Sam Anson has written a compelling account of a boy caught between two worlds and a profound portrait of the state of race in America.

Author: Robert Sam Anson
ISBN-10: 0394757076
ISBN-13: 9780394757070
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/12/1988
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.24w x 0.77d