Join sociologist Peter Moskos later this evening at Astoria’s Seaburn Books as he reads from Cop in the Hood, now available in paperback with a new afterword by the author. The event is free and open to the public.

Seaburn Books

33-18 Broadway

Long Island City, NY 11106

Sociologist and Cop in the Hood author Peter Moskos joined fellow Law Enforcement Against Prohibition member Neill Franklin on MSNBC’s Conversations with Carlos Watson. Both men served as Baltimore City police officers and co-authored an op-ed published earlier this week in the the Washington Post.

Here’s the clip of the interview with Carlos Watson:

Princeton author and former Baltimore police officer Peter Moskos gives his expert opinion on the politics of racial profiling and the arrest last week of prominent Harvard history scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. outside of his home in Cambridge, Mass., on the New York Times “Room for Debate” blog.

Read the entire discussion here.

Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn’s HEROES AND COWARDS, a groundbreaking study of 40,000 Civil War soldiers that reveals the benefits and limits of diversity, has been making the news in the past few days. Larry Gordon discusses the new book in the Los Angeles Times, an article that has been picked up in a number national papers including The Baltimore Sun, and David Glenn writes about it in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

On Friday the 13th, HEROES AND COWARDS: The Social Face of War took the Page 99 Test.

The question is, did they pass or fail?

Okay, perhaps that isn’t the question, but as the site quotes the wonderful Ford Madox Ford: “Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”

Not a bad way to check out a book!