{"product_id":"pre-order-9-29-release-the-american-way-of-killing-the-invention-of-an-epidemic-by-malcolm-gladwell","title":"*PRE-ORDER (9\/29 RELEASE)* The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic by Malcolm Gladwell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMalcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54459894759740,"sku":"9780316603782","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/71kMY3eXfyL._SL1500.avif?v=1790359653","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/pre-order-9-29-release-the-american-way-of-killing-the-invention-of-an-epidemic-by-malcolm-gladwell","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}