{"product_id":"9780316603782","title":"The American Way of Killing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. What can we learn from the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington, D.C.? How have the legal troubles of a seventeenth-century English knight influenced American attempts at gun control? Why would a European police chief be baffled by the graduation ceremony at any American police academy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a sweeping narrative, Gladwell travels from a shooting range in North Carolina, to the South Side of Chicago, to an old plantation house in Alabama, painting a picture of a country that does not understand its most pressing social problem, and as result, does not understand how to fix it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Malcolm Gladwell","offers":[{"title":"Little, Brown and Company |  Hardback  |  2026-09-29","offer_id":49053991010559,"sku":"9780316603782","price":45.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bb91fe24-cc2b-41ed-8dcb-63339168ce50.jpg?v=1787242331","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780316603782","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}