Books by Sudhir Venkatesh and Complete Book Reviews

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Sudhir Venkatesh, Author . Penguin Press $25.95 (302p) ISBN 978-1-59420-150-9
Honest and entertaining, Columbia University professor Venkatesh vividly recounts his seven years following and befriending a Chicago crack-dealing gang in a fascinating look into the complex world of the Windy City's urban poor. As introduced in...
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Gang Leader for a Day
Gang Leader for a Day
Sudhir Venkatesh, Author, Stephen J. Dubner, Read by, Reg Rogers, Read by , read by Reg Rogers. HarperAudio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-157113-8
In the late 1980s and 1990s, “rogue sociologist” Venkatesh infiltrated the world of tenant and gang life in Chicago's Robert Taylor Home projects. He found a complex system of compromises and subsistence that makes life (barely)...
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The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers
The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them
Sudhir Venkatesh. Simon & Schuster, $27.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9439-9
An inexperienced teenager takes over his older cousin’s drug business and lands in hot water in this fast-paced if somewhat shopworn look at the roots of Chicago’s gun violence. Ethnographer Venkatesh (Floating City) explains how 17-year-old Frankie
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