Blue Blood Paperback - 2005
by Edward Conlon
The "New York Times" bestseller from the fourth-generation NYPD officer and author of "The New Yorker" "Cop Diary" column.
Summary
"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.
First line
As I took my first steps on patrol as a New York City police officer, heading out from the precinct onto East 156 Street toward the projects on Courtlandt Avenue in the South Bronx, a deep voice called out, "There's a new sheriff in town!"
Details
- Title Blue Blood
- Author Edward Conlon
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition. f
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date April 5, 2005
- ISBN 9781594480737 / 1594480737
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.24 x 1.22 in (23.22 x 15.85 x 3.10 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 04/01/2005, Page 42
- New York Times, 04/24/2005, Page 28
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