Someplace Like America Tales from the New Great Depression |
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Author:
| Maharidge, Dale |
Foreword by:
| Springsteen, Bruce |
Filmed by:
| Williamson, Michael S. |
Series title: | A Simpson Book in the Humanities Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-520-27451-8 |
Publication Date: | May 2013 |
Publisher: | University of California Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | AUD $40.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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.