| Peter Laufer | A QUESTION OF CONSENT: Innocence and Complicity in the Glen Ridge Rape Case NIGHTMARE ABROAD: Stories of Americans Imprisoned in Foreign Lands IRON CURTAIN RISING: A Personal Journey through the Changing Landscape of Eastern Europe |
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A QUESTION
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A QUESTION OF CONSENT
The shocking
story of a heinous crime — the rape of a retarded girl by four teenage athletes
— raises troubling question about sexuality and American society.
“Journalist Peter Laufer captivates and engages the reader, giving the
book the feel of a fast-paced movie. Weaving in and out of the history
and politics of Glen Ridge, the personalities of the rapists, townspeople,
victim, and bystanders, he produces a can't-put-it-down account of this
heinous crime. He also sums up what this crime says about where we as
a society are heading in a way that gives the most steely-eyed among us
pause.” In 1993, a fascinating courtroom drama unfolded in Glen Ridge, New Jersey,
as defense attorneys portrayed a mentally retarded rape victim as a seductress
and her four rapists as regular allAmerican boys. The lawyers went on
to explain how the teenagers had made an excusable mistake in sexually
assaulting the young woman with a succession of foreign objects.
The Glen Ridge case is symptomatic of ills that plague our society.
By exposing the ways mainstream mentality enables rationalization of sex
crimes, A Question of Consent raises chilling questions about the
sexual mores of late twentieth-century America.
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NIGHTMARE ABROAD
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NIGHTMARE ABROAD
Real-life stories of Americans imprisoned abroad, based on an award-winning NBC documentary.
“Any American traveling outside the United States should read Nightmare Abroad.”
“For anyone who has ever considered crossing an international border, Peter Laufer’s book is indispensable. Finally, here are the things your travel agent (and journalism professors) won’t tell you. He thoroughly covers the horrifying story and offers a practical guide to avoiding (or, if necessary, surviving) foreign prisons.” Peter Laufer explodes the myth of the untouchable American in this eye-opening
study of how Americans end up imprisoned abroad, why our government helps
so little, and how to avoid disaster in foreign travel.
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IRON CURTAIN
RISING |
IRON CURTAIN RISING First Runner-Up, LOWELL THOMAS TRAVEL JOURNALISM AWARD
"Veteran international correspondent Laufer, who covered the Eastern bloc revolution for ABC and CBS, here offers images, anecdotes, and conversations with ordinary citizens that give a fuller flavor of how the prospect of freedom affects individuals."
"I could actually feel, see, hear, and, yes, smell the revolution as I read Iron Curtain Rising. Peter Laufer views the upheaval in Eastern Europe not as a geopolitical event but as one of the day-to-day adventures of the human race. Real people, ordinary people and simple situations, made me understand what happened far more than if I had read some ponderous tome." "The best illustration yet that the collapse of Communism in Europe
was actually the story of individuals and their struggle for freedom.
Laufer provides an intimate look at how everyday lives were affected by
one of the major social and political upheavals of the century." |
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PETER LAUFER's NBC radio documentary on Americans imprisoned overseas, the impetus for Nightmare Abroad, won the Long Island University George Polk Award and Ohio State and American Bar Association awards. Previously the news and program director at WRC radio in Washington D.C., Peter has traveled throughout the world as a freelance radio and newspaper reporter. His reports on major news stories such as the war in Nicaragua, cocaine trafficking in South America, and the AIDS epidemic have been widely published and have brought him several Society of Professional Journalists, B'nai B'rith Edward R. Murrow, and National Headliner awards. He is also the author of Safety & Security for Women Who Travel (with his wife Sheila Swan), Wireless Etiquette, Inside Talk Radio, and a children's picture book Made in Mexico. He is currently at work, with Jeff Kamen, on EXODUS TO BERLIN, a film documenting the contemporary mass exodus to Germany of Jews fleeing persecution in the former Soviet Union.
Peter lives in Marin County, California, with his wife and two sons.
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NBC law correspondent