{"product_id":"unheard-witness-9781477327647","title":"Unheard Witness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnheard Witness\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1966, Kathy Leissner Whitman was a twenty-three-year-old teacher dreaming of a better future. She was an avid writer of letters, composing hundreds in the years before she was stabbed to death by her husband, Charles Whitman, who went on to commit a mass shooting from the tower at the University of Texas at Austin. Kathy's writing provides a rare glimpse of how one woman described, and sought to change, her short life with a coercive, controlling, and violent partner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnheard Witness\u003c\/i\u003e provides a portrait of Kathy's life, doing so at a time when Americans are slowly grasping the link between domestic abuse and mass shootings. Public violence often follows violence in the home, yet such private crimes continue to be treated separately and even erased in the public imagination. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorian Scott-Coe (Mass) paints a richly textured portrait of Kathy Leissner Whitman . . . Telling the story in flashbacks and vignettes, Scott-Coe presents this cautionary tale with compassion and sensitivity. The result is an insightful close study of the connection between domestic violence and mass shootings. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eTold in vivid detail through an enormous trove of letters that Leissner’s brother kept long after her violent death, the reader plunges immediately, uncomfortably, and intimately into the life and thoughts of a doomed woman . . . She chooses to bring back to vivid life Kathy . . . and Scott-Coe succeeds: This book is an intimate and uncomfortable read that puts the reader deep inside Kathy’s mind. * Texas Observer *\u003cbr\u003eScott-Coe [is] uniquely positioned to approach the story of Whitman's long-suffering wife with expert care and thorough research...The author raises important questions and points out what research has found about intimate partner violence, framing Kathy's story as a cautionary tale, but one that is all too common. Without Whitman, she might be 80 years old today, enjoying retirement from a successful career as a teacher. With him, a promising life was cut short, and his terrorism overshadowed her memory, but this carefully crafted tribute ensures it will not be erased. * The Austin Chronicle *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Danger, 1961 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Country Life, Only Daughter \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pulled Off-Course \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Whirlwind \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Trouble Starts at Home \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Mapping an Escape \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Separated and Almost Safe \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Barometer Dropping \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Between the Leaves \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Disturbed Horizons \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e “Back to Normal Soon” \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Behind the Eyewall \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue: Recovery and Response \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Questions for Book Groups or Classroom Discussion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408964067671,"sku":"9781477327647","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477327647.jpg?v=1730504884","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unheard-witness-9781477327647","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}