Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
By: Rosa Brooks
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the blue wall of silence in this radical insid…
Want to Read $ 11.99"For better or for worse, police officers spend most of their time serving as medics, mediators, and monitors."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"For better or for worse, police officers spend most of their time serving as medics, mediators, and monitors."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"Violence is a puzzle. We all say we oppose violence and want to reduce it, but no human society gets by without it."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"Violence is a puzzle. We all say we oppose violence and want to reduce it, but no human society gets by without it."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
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1. The Tragedy of Brady Sims (Vintage Contemporaries)
By: Ernest J. Gaines
3.84
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
Ernest J. Gaines's new novella revolves around a courthouse shooting that leads a young reporter to… read more
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- race
- audiobook
2. Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
By: Anne Garrels
3.57
Format: None pages, Hardcover
More than twenty years ago, when NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsky--a gritt… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
3. Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
By: Peter Moskos
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eas… read more
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- true crime
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
4. The Sheltering Sky
By: Paul Bowles
3.89
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
In this classic work of psychological terror, Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans appr… read more
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"When I was young"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"The soul is the weariest part of the body."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze."-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
"La humanidad es todos salvo uno mismo. Entonces, ¿Qué interés puede tener para nadie?"-Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky
5. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable
By: Joanna Schwartz
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more
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- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- sociology
- audiobook
6. Parkland: Birth of a Movement
By: Dave Cullen
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more
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- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- sociology
- audiobook
7. Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
By: Forrest Stuart
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and th… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
8. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
By: Evan Osnos
4.24
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize– winning writer Evan Osnos retur… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
"In all, just 158 American families had donated half of all the money to candidates on the ballot [in the 2016 election]."-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw i…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"It's not as simple as "this guy is with us on everything - or he's not!" she said. "I think the left imagines that in order for us to make progress, everyone has to agree about everything. I don't th…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"After residents had secured the major markers of wealth - the home, the right schools, the serenity of private aviation - they turned their attention to the real game in town: the refining of advanta…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
9. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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- audiobook
10. The Family Roe: An American Story
By: Joshua Prager
4.13
Format: 672 pages, Hardcover
Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), … read more
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- biography
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
11. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
By: Justin Fenton
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more
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- race
- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
12. The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens
By: Richard N. Haass
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Bestseller A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if Americ… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
13. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
14. Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
By: Ina Park
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Joyful and funny . . . Park uses science, compassion, humor, diverse stories and examples of her o… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"In 1959, women were told they needed to cultivate their “daintiness"-Ina Park, Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs
15. An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight to Change Policing in America
By: Edwin Raymond
4.64
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
A WASHINGTON POST BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2023“With illuminati… read more
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- race
- true crime
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
16. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
By: Charles M. Blow
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A New York Times Editor’s Choice | A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book … read more
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- race
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"Racism doesn't wither, but is trained when to advance or retreat. It becomes self-regulating."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"Protesting is a form of direct democracy, but in America national policy is made of representative democracy."-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"It took centuries for America to hone its instruments of oppression. Every time part of it fell, it simply re-emerged in a more elegant form. Battling racism in this country is like cutting heads off…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
"The same year that the Civil War ended, the two states among those with the largest percentage of Black people – Mississippi, with 54 percent in the 1870 census, and South Carolina, with 59 percent –…"-Charles M. Blow, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto
17. Just Us: An American Conversation
By: Claudia Rankine
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Claudia Rankine's Citizen changed the conversation--Just Us urges all of us into itAs everyday whit… read more
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- race
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"To converse is to risk the unraveling of the said and the unsaid."-Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation
18. Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
By: Rosa Brooks
4.07
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Journalist and law professor Rosa Brooks goes beyond the blue wall of silence in this radical insid… read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- sociology
- audiobook
"For better or for worse, police officers spend most of their time serving as medics, mediators, and monitors."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"Violence is a puzzle. We all say we oppose violence and want to reduce it, but no human society gets by without it."-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"What if instead of telling officers they have a right to go home safe, police training focused on reminding officers that members of the public have a right to go home safe? What if we reminded offic…"-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
"For the most part, America’s criminal justice system isn’t deliberately cruel. It’s just indifferent to the ways in which it breaks human beings. Few police officers want to contribute to mass incarc…"-Rosa Brooks, Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
19. Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most
By: Rafael A. Mangual
4.13
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's in… read more
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- race
- true crime
- politics
- nonfiction
- crime
- sociology
20. Bad Jews: A History of American Jewish Politics and Identities
By: Emily Tamkin
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A journalist and author of The Influence of Soros examines the history of Jewish people in America … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
21. The Mighty Red
By: Louise Erdrich
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more
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- audiobook
