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001 2013431178
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008 130918s2013 nhua 000 0 eng
010 $a 2013431178
020 $a9781586422141
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aHV6773.52$bJ56 2013
082 00 $a364.152/3092$223
100 1 $aJimenez, Stephen.
245 14 $aTHE BOOK OF MATT:$bHidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard /$cSTEPHEN JIMENEZ.
264 1 $aHANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE :$bSTEERFORTH PRESS,$c[2013]
300 $aviii, 360 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-357).
520 $a"Late on the night of October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a twenty-one-year-old gay college student, 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 sources. Who was the real Matthew Shepard and what were the true circumstances of his brutal murder? And now that he was larger than life, did anyone care? 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" -- from publisher's web site.
600 10 $aShepard, Matthew,$d1976-1998.
600 10 $aMcKinney, Aaron James.
600 10 $aHenderson, Russell$q(Russell Arthur)
650 0 $aHate crimes$zUnited States$xPublic opinion.
650 0 $aGays$xCrimes against$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMass media and public opinion$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMass media and gays$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMass media$zUnited States$xInfluence.