I’m lowbrow and brilliant!
That’s the word from New York Magazine’s”Approval Matrix.” I’ll take it!
That’s the word from New York Magazine’s”Approval Matrix.” I’ll take it!
Strand is selling my book for $12.47. I doubt you will ever find it cheaper. But there are only 2 copies in stock. I bet when these 2 are gone, the price will go up. $12.47 is 50% off cover price. I can only get 40% off cover price and I wrote the damn thing!…
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I was on the subway today, reading the Atlantic Monthly(or is it just The Atlantic?… no matter, it’s my favorite magazine…. with the New Yorkerplacing a close second and the Economistto show). I see a book review for Judith Herrin’s Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire. I like Professor Herrin. I took a…
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My thanks to Marni Soupcoff of the (Canadian) National Post for her kind words about my blog. She’s right, the real purpose of this blog is to get people to buy my book, Cop in the Hood. And she did! So thanks, Marni. Hopefully the weak dollar will inspire many others up north to buy…
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Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen, the people behind Marginal Revolution, a respected and well read blog, have been very kind to me (or at least very kind to my book). Tyler Cowen posted about my book and the Amazon pre-sales rank got a big boost (not that I check these things, of course).
Another good review. From Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine: Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District Peter Moskos. Princeton Univ., $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-691-12655-5 A Harvard-trained sociologist, Moskos set out to do a one-year study of police behavior. Challenged by Baltimore’s acting police commissioner “to become a cop for real,” he accepted.…
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*…for anybody I policed with. Or if you were in the academy class of 99-5. Odds are I don’t have your contact information, so email me at pmoskos@jjay.cuny.edu. I’d certainly prefer it if you bought your own copy. I don’t get my own book for free. I have to buy it from Amazon.com just like…
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The book is at the printers, the press is excited, and I can offer you a sample from the book. Read Chapter One. Read it, like it, and then buy the book. Release date is May 1 but you can preorder from Amazon. What better way to celebrate May Day than to march under fluttering…
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“Peter Moskos, a sociologist by training, somewhat inadvertently became a police officer. Cop in the Hood is the fortuitous and fascinating result. It gives the reader the real dope from someone with the training and ability to put the street into the larger context. Highly recommended.” –Alex Tabarrok, George Mason University, cofounder of marginalrevolution.com. “Cop…
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Here’s the text for the back of the book. It makes everything sound so exciting that even I want to re-read my book… Cop in the Hood is an explosive insider’s story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. Harvard-trained sociologist Peter…
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