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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 20,535 ratings — published 1991
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 6,941 ratings — published 1997
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,057 ratings — published 2007
The Wire: A Dramatic Series for HBO (PDF)
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avg rating 4.59 — 27 ratings — published
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 3,622 ratings — published 2022
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 19,930 ratings — published 2015
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,104 ratings — published 2010
Drama City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 2,848 ratings — published 2005
King Suckerman (D.C. Quartet, #2)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,591 ratings — published 1997
The Sweet Forever (D.C. Quartet #3)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,586 ratings — published 1998
All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,440 ratings — published 2018
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 6,681 ratings — published 2006
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,017 ratings — published 1991
Clockers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 12,965 ratings — published 1992
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,555 ratings — published 2013
Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro, #6)
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avg rating 3.76 — 25,714 ratings — published 2010
Prayers for Rain (Kenzie & Gennaro, #5)
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avg rating 4.09 — 24,363 ratings — published 1999
Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 42,954 ratings — published 1998
A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 46,988 ratings — published 1994
The Wire: Truth Be Told (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,350 ratings — published 2004
Sacred (Kenzie & Gennaro, #3)
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avg rating 3.96 — 24,223 ratings — published 1997
Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
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avg rating 4.18 — 33,488 ratings — published 1996
Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 528 ratings — published 2025
The Wire: The Complete Visual History (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,042 ratings — published 2013
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
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avg rating 4.46 — 2,058 ratings — published 2025
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why They Do It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 583 ratings — published 1989
Power, Racism and Privilege: Race Relations in Theoretical and Sociohistorical Perspectives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 8 ratings — published 1976
The Tyranny of Metrics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,822 ratings — published 2017
When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 722 ratings — published 1996
Learning to Labor (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 571 ratings — published 1977
The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 507 ratings — published 1987
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 3,478 ratings — published 2003
Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)
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avg rating 3.72 — 36 ratings — published 1997
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,072 ratings — published 1998
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 250 ratings — published 2001
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 277 ratings — published 2004
Who Speaks for You?: The Inside Story of the Prosecutor Who Took Down Baltimore's Most Crooked Cops (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 37 ratings — published
The Clinic and Elsewhere: Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy (In Vivo)
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avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published 2013
Robbing Drug Dealers: Violence Beyond the Law (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13 ratings — published 2000
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 201 ratings — published 1996
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,665 ratings — published 1995
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 5,888 ratings — published 1974
French Connection: A True Account Of Cops, Narcotics, And International Conspiracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 684 ratings — published 1969
The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 731 ratings — published 1972
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,213 ratings — published 2021
Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,454 ratings — published 2019
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 428 ratings — published 2018
The Baltimore Book of the Dead (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 514 ratings — published 2018
Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 646 ratings — published 2011
“Ed Burns: You can rescue a child, but you can't rescue the children, and the the difference. Opportunity is a much better word than hope. If a child sees the opportunity and you can direct the child toward the opportunity, then the kid's okay. Hope is like a dream.”
― All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
― All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
“David Simon: Everybody has an expectation that much of American television is about redemption and about affirmation. We were trying to make a show that was basically an argument of dissent. It was political dissent. It was saying our systems are not functioning. Our policies are incorrect. We're not going to find a way out of this unless we stand back and take stock and turn one hundred eighty degrees from what we've been doing, particularly in regard to the drug war and inequality that we were depicting.”
― All The Pieces Matter
― All The Pieces Matter
