Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
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Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
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Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.―Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of rando…
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