Someplace Like America : Tales from the New Great Depression Paperback / softback
by Dale Maharidge
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, 1 b-w photograph
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:14/05/2013
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- ISBN:9780520274518
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, 1 b-w photograph
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:14/05/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520274518
