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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Moods

informative 83%
challenging 50%
reflective 50%
dark 38%
emotional 38%
adventurous 22%
sad 22%
tense 22%
inspiring 11%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 12%
fast 12%

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