{"product_id":"the-american-way-of-killing-the-invention-of-an-epidemic","title":"The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. What can we learn from the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington, D.C.? How have the legal troubles of a seventeenth-century English knight influenced American attempts at gun control? Why would a European police chief be baffled by the graduation ceremony at any American police academy?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a sweeping narrative, Gladwell travels from a shooting range in North Carolina, to the South Side of Chicago, to an old plantation house in Alabama, painting a picture of a country that does not understand its most pressing social problem, and as result, does not understand how to fix it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverfront Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50342463504598,"sku":"9780316603782","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8492\/0022\/files\/9780316603782_012bf.jpg?v=1788111387","url":"https:\/\/www.riverfrontbooks.com\/products\/the-american-way-of-killing-the-invention-of-an-epidemic","provider":"Riverfront Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}