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Author : Dale Maharidge
Release : 2013-05-14
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 512/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Someplace Like America by : Dale Maharidge
Download or read book Someplace Like America written by Dale Maharidge. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Updated edition with a new preface and afterword"--Cover.
Author : Dale Maharidge
Release : 2013-05-14
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 508/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Someplace Like America by : Dale Maharidge
Download or read book Someplace Like America written by Dale Maharidge. This book was released on 2013-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life—through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis—the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media—people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study—begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe—puts a human face on today’s grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.
Author : Mark Singer
Release : 2005
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 689/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Somewhere in America by : Mark Singer
Download or read book Somewhere in America written by Mark Singer. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Singer's lively and extremely popular "U.S. Journal" column in The New Yorker featured under-the-radar stories that were unusual but emblematic tales of American life. A first-time collection of these pieces, Somewhere in America offers an illuminating glimpse of the cultural kaleidoscope of our country. From worm farmers in Weleetka, Oklahoma, to angry nudists in Wilmington, Vermont, Singer proves that "sometimes you don't even need a passport to experience a new nation" (U.S. News & World Report).
Author : Sandra Dallas
Release : 2019-10-01
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 210/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Someplace to Call Home by : Sandra Dallas
Download or read book Someplace to Call Home written by Sandra Dallas. This book was released on 2019-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, what's left of the Turner family--twelve-year-old Hallie and her two brothers--finds itself driving the back roads of rural America. The children have been swept up into a new migratory way of life. America is facing two devastating crises: the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Hundreds of thousands of people in cities across the country have lost jobs. In rural America it isn't any better as crops suffer from the never-ending drought. Driven by severe economic hardship, thousands of people take to the road to seek whatever work they can find, often splintering fragile families in the process. As the Turner children move from town to town, searching for work and trying to cobble together the basic necessities of life, they are met with suspicion and hostility. They are viewed as outsiders in their own country. Will they ever find a place to call home? New York Times-bestselling author Sandra Dallas gives middle-grade readers a timely story of young people searching for a home and a better way of life.
Author : Dale Maharidge
Release : 1993
Genre : Marginality, Social
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Book Synopsis The Last Great American Hobo by : Dale Maharidge
Download or read book The Last Great American Hobo written by Dale Maharidge. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of Blackie, a hobo for sixty years, as he chooses to defend his life on the banks of the Sacramento and fight America's changing attitude toward the homeless.
