Summary: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
Rogues (2022) Is a Compilation of Veteran Journalist Patrick Radden Keefe’s Most Famous Profiles for the New Yorker Magazine. Keefe Delves into the Lives of...
Rogues (2022) is a compilation of veteran journalist Patrick Radden Keefe’s most famous profiles for the New Yorker Magazine. Keefe delves into the lives of notorious criminals and con artists, exploring their complex motivations. He examines the societies that made them and the systems we have for bringing people to justice.
- Genres
- Introduction: Get a fascinating look into the lives of some of society’s most controversial figures.
- A sister torn between family loyalty and her conscience.
- A drug trafficker who felt invincible – until he wasn’t.
- A disturbed academic who was a “ticking time bomb.”
- Heroic whistleblower or greedy criminal? It depends on who you ask.
- Final Summary
- About the author
- Table of Contents
- Review
Genres
Biography and Memoir, Society and Culture, History, Writing, Essays, Mystery, Short Stories, Adult, Journalism, Leaders and Notable People, White Collar Crime True Accounts, Criminology, Murder and Mayhem True Accounts
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Introduction: Get a fascinating look into the lives of some of society’s most controversial figures.
Most of us are used to consuming news in bits and bytes, getting a jumble of stories into our news feeds with the most sensational headlines – the most shocking news. But what about the people behind those stories? Behind every cartoonish portrait of a villain is a story. A history. A bundle of desires. A concerned family.
Teasing out that history is the specialty of Patrick Radden Keefe. In the decades he’s worked as a journalist, he’s written about all sorts of people, from drug traffickers to whistleblowers, from dedicated lawyers to cunning conmen. In Rogues, Keefe collates 12 of the most significant profiles he’s written over the course of his career as a journalist.
In this summary, you’ll take a deep dive into four of these stories. Each story examines the key questions that Keefe explores in his journalism: What influences the ethical choices that people make? And, how do the stories we tell about them affect how we understand those choices?
In this summary, you’ll discover
- why notorious drug trafficker “El Chapo” managed to escape arrest for so long;
- what could have caused academic Amy Bishop to become a mass murderer; and
- why a whistleblower could be seen as both a common criminal and a hero.
