The Central Park Five: A story revisited in… by Sarah Burns · Audiobook preview

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The Central Park Five: A story revisited in light of the acclaimed new Netflix series When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay
Authored by Sarah Burns
Narrated by Barbara Barnes, Michael Obiora

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0:03 The Central Park Five: A story revisited in light of the acclaimed new Netflix series When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay
0:13 Preface
7:00 Chapter One
50:52 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

The case of the Central Park Five is being revisited with a new acclaimed Netflix limited series on the subject, When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay.

This is the only book that is going to tell you all you need to know about one of the most infamous criminal cases in American history. A trial that, thirty years on, still bears a striking, and unsettling, resemblance to our current political climate in the era of President Donald Trump.

In April 1989, a white woman who came to be known as the 'Central Park jogger' was brutally raped and severely beaten, her body left crumpled in a ravine. Amid the staggering torrent of media coverage and public outcry that ensued, exposing the deep–seated race and class divisions in New York City at the time, five teenagers were quickly apprehended – four black and one Hispanic. All five confessed, were tried and convicted as adults despite no evidence linking them to the victim.

Over a decade later, when DNA tests connected serial rapist Matias Reyes to the crime, the government, law enforcement, social institutions and media of New York were exposed as having undermined the individuals they were designed to protect.

In The Central Park Five, Sarah Burns, who has worked closely with the young men to uncover and document the truth, recounts the ins and outs of this historic case for the first time since their convictions were overturned, telling, at last, the full story of one of America's most legendary miscarriages of justice.

(P) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Burns is a writer and documentary filmmaker who first wrote about the Central Park Five as an undergraduate at Yale University. Her films include The Central Park Five, which received many awards and honours, including a Peabody Award, Jackie Robinson, East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story, and an upcoming biography of Muhammad Ali for PBS. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published on: March 26, 2020
ISBN: 9781529358995
Duration: 8 hr, 27 min
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws, Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black, Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Discrimination, True Crime / General, True Crime / Sexual Assault