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Blue Blood
by Edward Conlon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1573222666
- ISBN 13
- 9781573222662
- Seller
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Hagerstown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
5th Riverhead Books Printing. Dustjacket has light shelf & edge wear, and a faint stain on the bottom front that would not come off. Text is clean & tight; 559 pages.
Synopsis
"A great book... with the testimonial force equal to that of Michael Herr's Dispatches ."— Time Edward Conlon's Blue Blood is an ambitious and extraordinary work of nonfiction about what it means to protect, to serve, and to defend among the ranks of New York's finest. Told by a fourth generation NYPD, this is an anecdotal history of New York as experienced through its police force, and depicts a portrait of the teeming street life of the city in all its horror and splendor. It is a story about police politics, fathers and sons, partners who become brothers, old ghosts and undying legacies. Conlon joined the NYPD during the Giuliani administration, when New York City saw its crime rate plummet but also witnessed events that would alter the city, its inhabitants, and its police force forever: polarizing racial cases, the proliferation of the drug trade, and the events of September 11, 2001, and its aftermath. Conlon captures the detail of the landscape, the ironies and rhythms of natural speech, the tragic and the marvelous, firsthand, day after day. A New York Times Notable Book and Finalist for The National Book Criticics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Out of this World Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00587
- Title
- Blue Blood
- Author
- Edward Conlon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dustjacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 5th Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1573222666
- ISBN 13
- 9781573222662
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Police Biographies; Law Enforcement Biographies; Law Enforcement Politics; NYPD Police Autobiographies
- Size
- Hardcover
Terms of Sale
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