LIFE’S LESSONS
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
By Sudhir Venkatesh, read by Reg Rogers and Stephen J. Dubner
HarperAudio
The author recounts how he, at first a graduate student at the University of Chicago, cozied up to a South Side gang and spent years observing their crack trade. Here are two more studies of American life:
Letters to a Young Teacher
By Jonathan Kozol, read by David Drummond
Tantor Media
A public-school activist comments on education through letters to an inner-city Boston teacher.
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
By Barbara Ehrenreich, read by the author and Anne Twomey
Macmillan Audio
Pretty resume paper can be used to mop up tears of frustration too.
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Kristin Kloberdanz is a former Time magazine writer.
