{"product_id":"the-american-way-of-killing-9780316603782","title":"The American Way of Killing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalcolm Gladwell returns with his most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America's epidemic of gun violence. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\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":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52437030994225,"sku":"9780316603782","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/2420\/2801\/files\/O_38d92f88-51b0-43be-ae16-a901202bb574.jpg?v=1782705699","url":"https:\/\/pageaday.com\/products\/the-american-way-of-killing-9780316603782","provider":"Page-A-Day","version":"1.0","type":"link"}