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American Taboo : A Murder in the Peace Corps by Philip Weiss (2004, Hardcover)

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Condition
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A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. The binding may be slightly damaged but integrity is still intact. Possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“Ex-library--stamps, stickers, and plastic on the cover; movement to the spine, and wrinkled pages ...
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Ex Libris
No
Title
American Taboo
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Age Level
Adults
Inscribed
No
Regional Cuisine
American
Type
Chronicle
Special Attributes
1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
Personalized
No
Features
Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Subjects
Biographies & True Stories
ISBN
9780060096861

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060096861
ISBN-13
9780060096861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30202227

Product Key Features

Book Title
American Taboo : a Murder in the Peace Corps
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
World / Australian & Oceanian, Murder / General, United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Social History, General, International Relations / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Criminology
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, True Crime, Social Science, History
Author
Philip Weiss
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-302417
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.152/3/099612
Synopsis
TABOO (n) [Tongan tabu] 1: a prohibition against touching, saying, or doing something for fear of immediate harm from a supernatural force. In 1975, thirty-three Peace Corps volunteers landed in the island nation of Tonga. It was an exotic place -- men wearing grass skirts, coconut-thatched huts, pigs wandering the crushed-coral streets -- governed by strange and exacting rules of conduct. The idealistic young Americans called it never-never land, as if it existed in a world apart from the one they knew and the things that happened there would be undone when they went home. Among them was a beautiful twenty-three-year-old woman who, like so many volunteers before her, was in search of adventure. Sensuous and free-spirited, Deborah Gardner would become an object of desire, even obsession, in the small expatriate community. On the night of October 14, 1976, she was found dying inside her hut, stabbed twenty-two times. Hours later, another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned to New York a free man, flown home at the Peace Corps's expense. Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga; in the United States, government officials made sure the story was suppressed. Now Philip Weiss unravels the truth about what happened in Tonga more than a quarter century ago. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.
LC Classification Number
HV6535.T65W45 2004

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