You Have to Hear This, An Oral History: Black Voices of New York City Law Enforcement
Note: No black officers on the cover. (h/t Curtis)
You Have to Hear This, An Oral History: Black Voices of New York City Law Enforcement
Note: No black officers on the cover. (h/t Curtis)
1. Their voices are black, but their skin is white. How odd.
2. The cover says you must “hear” their oral stories, but it is a “written” book. Doubly odd.
Beyond that, it’s a very boring cover that demands a yawn instead of a reading.
It could be a very good book that deserves a read.
A bland cover that demands you “have to hear this, an oral history” does not help.
I checked. It’s a paperback. It is not an audiobook. The Amazon blurb is more attention grabbing and interesting than this cover.
This cover has a police command voice like Barney Fife on helium.
(Google command voice police: “Correct command voices have a tone, cadence, and snap that demand willing, correct, and immediate response”. A good book cover commands willing and immediate purchase.)
For that matter Google “NYPD patrolman uniform” and compare to the cover.
Yup, sounds legitimately interesting, but frankly a cover like this one does a hell of a job persuading you otherwise.
Weird punctuation in the title to add to all the other issues.