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Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
Dale Maharidge
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Description for Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, 1 b/w photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JFFB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 177 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520274518
SKU
V9780520274518
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About Dale Maharidge
Dale Maharidge is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has published seven books, including And Their Children After Them, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass. Michael S. Williamson is a photographer at the Washington Post who has collaborated with Maharidge on many of his books.
Reviews for Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression
"'Someplace Like America' is unrelenting prose... There's something doggedly heroic in this commitment to one of journalism's least glamorous, least remunerative subjects."
George Packer New Yorker "Evokes the Depression-era collaboration of Walker Evans and James Agee." Publishers Weekly "Deserves high praise ... Undeniable relevance to today's American experience." Foreword "Maharidge's straightforward-but-impassioned prose and Williamson's gritty black-and white photographs make ... Read more
George Packer New Yorker "Evokes the Depression-era collaboration of Walker Evans and James Agee." Publishers Weekly "Deserves high praise ... Undeniable relevance to today's American experience." Foreword "Maharidge's straightforward-but-impassioned prose and Williamson's gritty black-and white photographs make ... Read more