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Book Review of Best Intentions : The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry

Best Intentions : The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
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"He didn't have the freedom to be an individual. All his life he was a symbol, a slot-filler. And Eddie knew it."

Compelling, carefully researched account of a Harlem teenager, educated at Exeter and about to go to Stanford, who was shot to death while trying to rob an undercover cop.