Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

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In this “riveting”(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the sector of Chicago’s crack-dealing gangs

First presented in Freakonomics, the tale of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago’s such a lot notorious gang and captured the sector’s attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of ways Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness-and take part in-events that experience rarely been described in print. A brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view of the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, regularly corrupt struggle to continue to exist in an urban war zone, it’s also an emotional and complicated take a look at the friendship that develops between the sociologist and a gang leader, two ambitious men a universe apart.


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