On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Alice Goffman

277 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction politics race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveill...

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informative: 85%

reflective: 47%

challenging: 42%

dark: 38%

emotional: 38%

adventurous: 23%

sad: 23%

tense: 23%

inspiring: 9%


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