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Title: Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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| Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin Press HC, The Great Read | | If you are interested in Gangs, Chicago, or Sociology this is a must have book! Great Book! | | Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin Press HC, The excellent - good view into the Chicago gangs of the 1980s | | I read this book for book club. It was a quick, fascinating, and easy read. Lots of good points to think about and discuss. Recommend for academics and folks who care about humanity. Interesting economic issues raised as well. | | Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin Press HC, The Add To Your Shelf Now!!! | This book is just awesome!! Sudhir tells the story of J.T., a Chicago gang leader of the BK's, the project that they run and the people in the projects that their lives are affected by. It's just so fascinating!! You will get hooked on page 1 and will find it hard to put it down. I hated to see it end. This is a must read book for sure.
--Gerard Zemek, husband of author of "My Funny Dad, Harry" | | Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin Press HC, The Great! | This book was a fantastic read and I would highly reccomend it to anyone. My wife and in-laws are currently reading this now after me and I am getting rave feedback from them also.
A great book for anyone! | | Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin Press HC, The Good Read | | This is a very interesting read. It is more of a memoir of his time in the projects, rather than an academic dissertation on the plight of the urban poor. Not the most riveting book I have ever read, but it is an quick read that has some very memorable moments. | | Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Penguin Press HC, The Product Description | First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrŽe into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there.
Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.
In Hollywood-speak, Gang Leader for a Day is The Wire meets Harvard University. It's a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart. |
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