Sudhir Venkatesh

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Sudhir Venkatesh is the author of Floating City and Gang Leader for a Day, a New York Times bestseller that received a best book of the year award from The Economist. He has been a Columbia University Professor, a Director of Safety teams at Facebook and Twitter, and a Senior Advisor to the Department of Justice. Venkatesh’s writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post. He lives in New York City.

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Books by Sudhir Venkatesh

The Tomorrow Game

Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them

By Sudhir Venkatesh

A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence.

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