{"product_id":"us-guys-isbn-9780143113065","title":"US Guys","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDetroit: An American Autopsy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of America that rarely see print.”—\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. \u003ci\u003eUS Guys\u003c\/i\u003e is his odyssey in search of the truth behind the American man, from a jaded homicide detective in Detroit to a two-bit jockey at a racetrack in Miami to a pair of lovers at a gay rodeo. With audacity, humor, and no small amount of physical pain, he captures a broad diversity of voices as they wrestle with an America they love but increasingly fail to understand.\"Mr. LeDuff has a distinct style for committing what the sociologist C. Wright Mills said was James Agee's forte: sociological poetry. . . . [He] has some Damon Runyon in him, some Raymond Chandler, and more good one-liners than a week's worth of machine-tooled sitcoms.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A fearless, clear-eyed companion into parts of America that rarely see print.\"\u003cbr\u003e -\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003eCHARLIE LEDUFF was a staff writer at the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and a reporter at the \u003ci\u003eDetroit News\u003c\/i\u003e, and is now a television journalist for Detroit’s Fox 2 News. He contributed to a Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e series and has received a Meyer Berger Award for distinguished writing about New York City. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWork and Other Sins, US Guys, \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling \u003ci\u003eDetroit: An American Autopsy.\u003c\/i\u003e LeDuff lives with his wife and daughter on the edge of the Detroit city limits.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303355732197,"sku":"NP9780143113065","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143113065.jpg?v=1767743336","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/us-guys-isbn-9780143113065","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}