The story from the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the within captured the world’s attention when it had been first explained in Freakonomics. Gang Innovator for a Day is the amazing full tale of how Sudhir Venkatesh were able to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his technique revolutionized the academic establishment.

When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in another of Chicago’s most notorious casing projects, he wanted people to have a on the subject of Gang Leader for a Day multiple-choice survey about urban poverty. A first-year grad college student, he’d befriend a gang head named JT and spend the better area of the following decade in the projects under JT’s security, documenting what he saw there.

Over another seven years, Venkatesh observed JT and all of those other gang as they operated their crack selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex organizational structure.

Gang Leader to get a Day is an inside watch in to the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban battle zone. Additionally it is the storyplot of a complicated friendship between two youthful and ambitious males, a universe aside.