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The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic

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內容簡介 《引爆趨勢》作者葛拉威爾 (Malcolm Gladwell) 迄今最迫切、最發人深省的著作：以挑釁而犀利的角度，深入調查美國如「流行病」般嚴重蔓延的槍枝暴力問題。運用第一手訪談、檔案文獻與社會科學研究，拆解槍枝、法律、警察制度與社會文化交織而成的複雜困局。追問：當國家盲人摸象，我們如何找到正解？「我之所以被犯罪與犯罪行為的故事所吸引，是因為我相信生與死、偏差行為與懲罰等議題，會揭示一個社會所奉行價值觀的重要內涵。」——葛拉威爾美國的謀殺案數量遠高於全球任何同等發展的國家。究竟是為什麼？這正是《美式殺戮》所要探討的核心。本書分為三個部分。第一部探討美國人在討論槍枝暴力時，那種從根本上就不誠實的方式。第二部探討美國人如何誤診了長期困擾其街頭的暴力本質。第三部則探討這個國家所選擇的道路在道德上有多麼輕率魯莽、不負責任。書中內容完全不涉及技術性或學術性：這不會是一本犯罪學教科書。相反地，《美式殺戮》將透過一連串關於人物、地點與時間點的故事來切入這些問題：從華盛頓特區一名槍擊倖存年輕人的奇蹟，到十七世紀一位英國騎士的法律糾紛；從阿拉巴馬州一位懷有可怕秘密的教授，到堪薩斯州一個美國人彼此欺騙了一百年的著名小鎮；從南卡羅來納州低地地區的奴隸莊園，到一座任何美國人都無法想像的德國監獄。在盲人摸象的著名寓言中，每個人摸到大象的不同部位，就得出不同的結論：有人摸到象鼻，認定大象像一條蛇；有人摸到象腿，斷定大象像一棵樹；有人摸到象牙，結論是大象像一枝矛——諸如此類。這正是美國面臨的問題，也是圍繞著如何應對國家暴力所進行的持續爭論中，無數衝突與誤解的根源。每個人看著不同的統計數據，或是專注於某個特定的事實。《美式殺戮》寫到了象鼻、象腿與象牙，作者最終的希望是：透過在同一個地方呈現所有的部位，你終於能一窺大象的全貌——並明白這個從外部看起來極其棘手的問題，其實根本不必如此棘手。Malcolm Gladwell’s most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?In 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.Drawing 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?In 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.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Malcolm GladwellMalcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, The Bomber Mafia, and Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is also the cofounder of Pushkin Industries, an audio-content company that produces Revisionist History, among other podcasts and audiobooks. He was born in England, raised in Canada, and lives outside New York with his family and a cat named Biggie Smalls.

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最佳賣點 : 《引爆趨勢》作者葛拉威爾 (Malcolm Gladwell) 迄今最迫切、最發人深省的著作：以挑釁而犀利的角度，深入調查美國如「流行病」般嚴重蔓延的槍枝暴力問題。運用第一手訪談、檔案文獻與社會科學研究，拆解槍枝、法律、警察制度與社會文化交織而成的複雜困局。追問：當國家盲人摸象，我們如何找到正解？

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