Other photographers have captured the desolation of abandoned factories and boarded-up main streets. Economists and historians have chronicled what Bennett Harrison and Barry Bluestone called 'The Great U-Turn.' But no one has brought home that story with quite the same passion and pathos as Mellon. These are not down-and-out steelworkers, miners, or auto assemblers, but witnesses to the betrayal of ... Read morethe American dream, as eloquent as anything Bruce Springsteen has penned. - Stuart W. Leslie, Technology and Culture ""Mellon's book finds history's visual record... in the faces of the people those now-gone industries left behind. In his photographs, they appear often as impassive, and impressive, as the sprawling industrial complexes that once sustained them. "" - Chris Potter, Pittsburgh City Paper Show Less