Book cover of The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City by Nicholas Dawidoffby Nicholas Dawidoff

Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

Finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts

A landmark work of intimate reporting on inequality, race, class, and violence, told through a murder and intersecting lives in an iconic American neighborhood.

One New Haven summer evening in 2006, a retired grandfather was shot point-blank by a young stranger. A hasty police investigation culminated in innocent sixteen-year-old Bobby being sentenced to prison for thirty-eight years. New Haven native and acclaimed author Nicholas Dawidoff returned home and spent eight years reporting the deeper story of this injustice, and what it reveals about the enduring legacies of social and economic disparity.

Interview with the Author

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Nicholas Dawidoff on THE OTHER SIDE OF PROSPECT: A STORY OF VIOLENCE, INJUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN CITY
10/20/22          51 min


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Nicholas Dawidoff: How the Story of a 2006 Murder Captures the Tragic Complexity of Inequality, Class, and Violence in 21st-Century America
10/20/22          39 min


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How the Injustices of Racism and Inequality Continue to Reverberate Through the Generations
11/18/22          79 min


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