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SOMEPLACE LIKE AMERICA
TALES FROM THE NEW GREAT DEPRESSION |
| By: |
Dale Maharidge, Bruce Springsteen (Foreword), Michael S. Williamson |
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Hardback |
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£25.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520262476 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520262478 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 May, 2011 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Take us to the working-class heart of America by providing the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. This title presents an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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92 b/w photographs |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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