Image from Amazon.com
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.
| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 363.330973 YOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 013513 |
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.