| Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Maharidge, Dale (Author), Springsteen, Bruce (Foreword by), Williamson, Michael S. (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0520274512 ISBN-13: 9780520274518 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $24.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.562 |
| LCCN: 2010053750 |
| Series: Simpson Book in the Humanities |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 276 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |