Gang Leader for a Day

  • Autor: Sudhir Venkatesh
  • Narrador: Stephen J. Dubner
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 8:45:10
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Sinopse

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 entrée 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, he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of the next decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there.

Over the next seven years, Venkatesh 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.

Gang Leader for a Day is an inside view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between two young and ambitious men, a universe apart.

Capítulos

  • Chapter 001

    Duração: 06min
  • Chapter 002

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 003

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 004

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 005

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 006

    Duração: 07min
  • Chapter 007

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 008

    Duração: 07min
  • Chapter 009

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 010

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 011

    Duração: 10min
  • Chapter 012

    Duração: 08min
  • Chapter 013

    Duração: 11min
  • Chapter 014

    Duração: 10min
  • Chapter 015

    Duração: 06min
  • Chapter 016

    Duração: 05min
  • Chapter 017

    Duração: 05min
  • Chapter 018

    Duração: 06min
  • Chapter 019

    Duração: 07min
  • Chapter 020

    Duração: 09min
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