num_pages: 576
description: A richly textured, anecdotal portrait of life as a police officer in the NYPD chronicles one man's life as a cop, from growing up with a police officer father and his education at Harvard, to his first day on the beat in the South Bronx and to his rise to detective, capturing the complex life on the street of the city, his law enforcement legacy, and the camraderie of the force. 125,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Blue Blood
titlecomplete: Blue Blood
characters: American Law Enforcement
genres: Biography, True Crime, History, Autobiography, Police, Crime, New York, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 1771
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: New York City Book Award
category: Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Riverhead Hardcover