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SOMEPLACE LIKE AMERICA
TALES FROM THE NEW GREAT DEPRESSION |
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Dale Maharidge, Bruce Springsteen (Foreword), Michael S. Williamson |
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Paperback |
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£21.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0520274512 |
ISBN 13: |
9780520274518 |
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS |
Pub. date: |
14 May, 2013 |
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Revised edition |
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276 |
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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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1 b/w photograph |
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US |
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University of California Press |
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