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Reviews, Reviews and More Reviews

??? The Boston Globe has a review of Bleeding Kansas, the latest novel by Sara Paretsky, saying it "may not be a conventional mystery, but it is a suspenseful page-turner nonetheless." ??? Both the Boston Globe and the Independent review Gang
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Gang Leader for a Day

Take listen to NPR??s Books: News and Notes podcast to hear a recent interview of Sudhir Venkatesh, currently at Columbia formerly from U. Chicago where he describes his experiences ???shadowing??? gang leaders in Chicago. He discusses not only his su
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Book Review: Gang Leader For a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh was a sociology graduate student at the University of Chicago when he set out for the Lake Park projects to observe the urban poor, armed only with a questionaire that asked questions like "how does it feel to be black and poor?&quo
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Hanging out with the ghetto??s Gordon Gekkos - Times Online

Indeed for 24 hours they made him their head ?? hence the title of his memoir of those times, Gang Leader for a Day Allen Lane, ??18.99 ?? though this was ...
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Inside drug-infested world of Chicago&39s most dangerous projects - Boston Globe

The resulting scene - rife with the potential for catastrophic violence - is recalled at length in Venkatesh&39s riveting new book, "Gang Leader for a Day. ...
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Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh

I first heard of Sudhir Venkatesh while reading Freakonomics, where the chapter ???Why do drug dealers still live with their moms???? explores the financial realities of a gang and was based on Sudhir??s time spent observing a Chicago gang. So I was e
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What We're Reading

What We're Reading Mon, 03/03/2008 - 6:49pm SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Prerna Mankad Warren Buffett's 2008 Letter to Berkshire Hathaway's shareholders pdf. Considered a "must read" for any investor every year, Buffett's often humorous le
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Clone me, and I??ll have more free time.

Photo courtesy of www.aliciapatterson.org Bit of a pile-up on the writing front. Digging myself out slowly. Yesterday, the Globe had my review of Sudhir Venkatesh??s ???Gang Leader for a Day??? today they have my review of the Saturday night St. Vin
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The unlikeliest gangbanger - Salon

"Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets" is Venkatesh&39s account of the time he spent hanging out at Chicago&39s Robert Taylor Homes, ...
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Whatcha Readin???

Whatcha Readin??? Marc Lamont Hill 2:04 pm Here are some books that I??ve been rereading recently: Gang Leader For a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era by Houston Baker
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Submit your link on Psychologists!

Submit your link on Psychologists! Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets-By: Sudhir Venkatesh -Price: 17.13 New 16.38 Used Dead Time-By: Stephen White -Price: 17.13 New The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through M
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MUMBO JUMBO: A VERBAL CALYPSO WITH ISHMAEL REED

The First of an Exclusive 2-Part Conversation with WAJAHAT ALI ???Hey, Waj. Come on in. Did you bring your mom??s Biryani???? asks an eager and excited Ishmael Reed, the MacArthur Genius recipient, Pulitzer Prize nominated author and all around, all
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What To Do Now That *It's* Going Off The Air

Now that the favorite TV show of both Barack Obama and AP CEO Tom Curley* is going off the air, it's time for junkies to look elsewhere for their needed dose of urban grit. At this point, there's no obvious successor on TV, so that means fans will have t
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What Do Real Thugs Think of The Wire? Part Nine - New York Times Blogs

By Sudhir Venkatesh Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia sociologist and author of ???Gang Leader for a Day,??? is back once again with his chronicle of watching ???The ...
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Middle-Class Millionaires, Porn Star: Most-Read Book Reviews - Bloomberg

Sudhir Venkatesh&39s ``Gang Leader for a Day&39&39 describes a Chicago high-rise public housing project all but controlled by a charismatic Black Kings gang ...
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The FREAK-est Links - New York Times Blogs

Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia sociologist and author of ???Gang Leader for a Day,??? is back once again with his chronicle of watching ???The Wire??? with a group of ...
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One Hell of a Conversation

Sudhir Venkatesh, last seen here as University of Chicago graduate student in Gang Leader for a Day, has been spending a lot of time talking to sex workers. There is a hierarchy, he says, and one of Spitzer's mistakes may have been not spending enough on
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Weekly Digest - 02/29/08

Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage. Audio Stream Podcast Mp3 Download This week on Uprising: * Gang Leader for a Day - an in-depth conversation with rogue sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh
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links for 2008-03-06

:: rogerebert.com :: Commentary :: Games vs. Art: Ebert vs. Barker ???If you can go through ???every emotional journey available,??? doesn??t that devalue each and every one of them? Art seeks to lead you to an inevitable conclusion, not a smorgasbord
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Naming Names with Ishmael Reed Part One

Marvellous Ishmael Reed here being interviewed by *Wajahat Ali. The topics they discuss range from Clintons, race, Obama, on being ???angry??? Black writer, mortgage crisis the 3 trillion war The Bell Curve, Eugenics, ???Whiteness??? to his per
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Gang Leader for a Day - Financial Times

By Sudhir Venkatesh If you??ve read Freakonomics, you already know of Sudhir Venkatesh. One chapter of the bestseller was based on Venkatesh??s decade of ...
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Crossing the line - Guardian Unlimited

His new memoir, Gang Leader for a Day, recounts how Venkatesh built his career on those notes, gathering enough material for his graduate thesis, ...
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Crossing the Fine Line: from Novels to Memoirs

The last three novels I??ve read weren??t novels. Let me re-phrase that. The last three books I read were not novels, but I read them as though they were novels, and with good reason. They look like novels, they unfold in chapters, they have a narrato
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Complexity in Action

I have read salon.com for years, ever since the late 1990s, and while I have never appreciated its smarmy social democrat and statist sympathies, it's been a much better publication over the last seven years of the Bush Jong Il regime simply because the
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DESI SPOTTING: Sudhir Venkatesh research as part of Spitzer scandal coverage

Here I was, thinking there wouldn't any South Asian angle to the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. But the Desi Spotter in me was excited to find something, after all. Turns out Sudhir Venkatesh, the Columbia University sociologist and expert on Chica
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What To Do Now That It's Going Off The Air

Now that the favorite TV show of both Barack Obama and AP CEO Tom Curley* is going off the air, it's time for junkies to look elsewhere for their needed dose of urban grit. At this point, there's no obvious successor on TV, so that means fans will have t
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Review: Gang Leader For a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh - Guardian Unlimited

JT was local leader of the Black Kings crack-dealing gang at the time of my second visit and Venkatesh, an Indian from a squeaky-clean Californian suburb, ...
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Being a Gang Leader For A Day Is Nothing Compared to Going on the Colbert Report pfblogs.org

There is nothing in the world that can prepare someone for what my co-author Sudhir Venkatesh Freakonomics guest poster and author of Gang Leader For A Day has on tap tonight: being a guest on the Colbert Report. I speak from experience. There is nothin
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&39The first thing one notices about the gang world is this: There ... - Men&39s News Daily

His remarkable account of those years -- contained in a newly released book, Gang Leader for a Day: A rogue sociologist takes to the streets-- is required ...
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One Colbert interviewee??s advice to another

That??s nice of Steven Levitt to try to prepare Sudhir Venkatesh for tonight??s interview, but like he says, there??s not really much you can do to get ready for Stephen. Best of luck to Mr. Venkatesh! Being a Gang Leader For A Day Is Nothing Compare
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