05321cam a2200925 4500 545442638 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385530002 0385530005 B0062OCN4E Amazon 21131084-181f-49ba-a3db-28aec72ad3b6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 100077 100077 100077 1536599 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Leovy, Jill. Ghettoside [Libby] : A True Story of Murder in America. Random House Publishing Group, 2015. True Crime. politics. racism. Law. activism. African Americans. Los Angeles. Justice. gangs. crime. Journalism. California. detective. current affairs. Criminal Justice. la. urban crime. black. mystery. murder . white supremacy. race. Race relations. violence in society. police. antiracism. African American. violence. Urban Studies. discrimination. cops. Urban. homicide. Social Justice. Sociology. LAPD. literary journalism. racial injustice. american crime. true crime books. racism books. american murder. crime in america. books on racism. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1496kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Law. Sociology. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post • The Boston Globe • The Economist • The Globe and Mail • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift. Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder—a “ghettoside” killing, one young black man slaying another—and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. Ghettoside is a fast-paced narrative of a devastating crime, an intimate portrait of detectives and a community bonded in tragedy, and a surprising new lens into the great subject of why murder happens in our cities—and how the epidemic of killings might yet be stopped. Praise for Ghettoside “A serious and kaleidoscopic achievement . . . [Jill Leovy is] a crisp writer with a crisp mind and the ability to boil entire skies of information into hard journalistic rain.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Masterful . . . gritty reporting that matches the police work behind it.”—Los Angeles Times “Moving and engrossing.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Penetrating and heartbreaking . . . Ghettoside points out how relatively little America has cared even as recently as the last decade about the value of young black men’s lives.”—USA Today “Functions both as a snappy police procedural and—more significantly—as a searing indictment of legal neglect . . . Leovy’s powerful testimony demands respectful attention.”—The Boston Globe. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. The New York Times Best Seller List. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/ghettoside?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/ghettoside?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/ghettoside?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)