Gang Leader for a Day Audiobook (Free)

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 explained in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day time is the interesting full tale of how Sudhir Venkatesh were able to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and exactly how his technique revolutionized the academic establishment.

When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious casing projects, he wanted people to have a on the subject of Gang Leader to get a Day multiple-choice survey in urban poverty. A first-year grad college student, he would befriend a gang innovator named JT and spend the better area of the next decade in the projects under JT’s safety, documenting what he saw there.

Over another seven years, Venkatesh observed JT and all of those other gang as they operated their crack selling business, conducted PR of their community, and rose up or fell inside the ranks of the gang’s complex organizational structure.

Gang Leader for a Day is an inside look at in to the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt battle to survive within an urban battle zone. Additionally it is the storyplot of a complicated camaraderie between two youthful and ambitious males, a universe apart.