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Another day in the death of America / Gary Younge.
By: Younge, Gary [author.]
.Publisher: London : London : Guardian Books ; Faber and Faber, 2016Description: ix, 306 pages : map.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781783351350; 9781783351015.Subject(s): Firearms and crime -- United States -- Case studies | Gun control -- United States | United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020DDC classification: 363.330973 Summary: On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. Younge chose November 23, 2013, with ten such deaths, and over a period of twenty-four hours reveals the powerful human stories behind the statistics. The result is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind.
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| 363.325170941 MAR Counter-radicalisation policy and the securing of British identity : | 363.3253 TU Chemical and biological weapons and terrorism / | 363.33 MUN Guns & violence : the debate before Lord Cullen / | 363.330973 YOU Another day in the death of America / | 363.340973 MCE Introduction to homeland security : | 363.346 BRI Disaster security : | 363.346 COA Futureproof : |
On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. Younge chose November 23, 2013, with ten such deaths, and over a period of twenty-four hours reveals the powerful human stories behind the statistics. The result is a gripping chronicle of an ordinary but deadly day in American life, and a series of character portraits of young people taken from us far too soon and those they left behind.