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

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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Helpful Score: 3


I first heard about this book on NPR and have wanted to read it since that time. A graduate student decides to take his research to an unprecedented, potentially dangerous level when he learns the ropes around the Cabrini-Green projects in Chicago, befriending a gang leader in the process. This is about the economics of poverty as much as it is about unexpected friendship. Really enjoyed it. Sudhir, you have balls of steel!!


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