Gary Younge
British journalist, author, and academic; former editor-at-large at the Guardian, known for incisive writing on race, politics, and social justice, and for books including Another Day in the Death of America and The Speech.
Books
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1. Another Day In The Death Of America
A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
A deeply reported narrative that chronicles a single ordinary day in the United States through the lives of ten young people killed by gunfire, tracing the circumstances of their deaths, the communities they came from, and the families they left behind. It humanizes those often reduced to statistics, showing how race, poverty, geography, and easy access to firearms intersect with media indifference to render such losses routine. Balancing intimate portraits with broader context, it challenges assumptions about crime and responsibility while exposing the structural forces that determine who is mourned, who is forgotten, and why these tragedies persist.
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