Original Gangster: A True Story about the Man Who Founded the Bloods (The Stacks Reader Series)

Original Gangster: A True Story about the Man Who Founded the Bloods (The Stacks Reader Series)

by Paul Solotaroff
Original Gangster: A True Story about the Man Who Founded the Bloods (The Stacks Reader Series)

Original Gangster: A True Story about the Man Who Founded the Bloods (The Stacks Reader Series)

by Paul Solotaroff

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Overview

T. Rodgers created the infamous L.A. street gang the Bloods and helped introduce crack to America. Later, chastened, Rodgers set out to end the madness.

Including an interview with the author by imprint editor Alex Belth.

The Stacks Reader Series highlights classic literary non-fiction and short fiction by great journalists that would otherwise be lost to history—a living archive of memorable storytelling by notable authors. Curated by Alex Belth and brought to you by The Sager Group, with support from NeoText (www.NeoTextCorp.com).


Product Details

BN ID: 2940165795572
Publisher: The Sager Group
Publication date: 02/21/2022
Series: The Stacks Reader Series
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Paul Solotaroff has been a senior writer at Rolling Stone for thirty years (and at Men’s Journal for almost twenty). He broke the NFL concussion scandal, the Aaron Hernandez story, the horror-show conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital and has written a series of stories that helped free innocent men who were doing life without parole in state prisons. Winner of the National Press Club Award, two Genesis Awards and a dozen selections to the Best American Sportswriting anthologies, he is a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award finalist, as well as the best-selling author of four books. More recently, he has been the creator/producer of prestige docu-series: Free Meek (Amazon); How to Fix a Drug Scandal (Netflix); USA vs El Chapo (Facebook Watch), and the Sundance-winning 3 ½ Minutes.

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