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Someplace like America
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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Someplace like America
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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AFTERWORD TO THE 2013 EDITION
When Occupy Detroit took over the city’s Grand Circus Park, Jevon “J.B.” Brown shambled into the encampment and began sleeping there. The twenty-two-year-old had been homeless for one and a half years. When city officials ordered the protesters to leave, J.B. banded with others to “occupy the hood” instead of returning to the anonymity of homelessness. They went north to a street named Golden Gate, near 7 Mile Road. It was a typical Detroit neighborhood—there was an abundance of abandoned and burned-out homes amid still-occupied dwellings. At the same time, Fireweed Universe City, an urban activist group,
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SNAPSHOTS FROM THE ROAD, 2009
The country is reeling. Housing prices, the market, and confidence are tumbling. Awhile back, you’d been called an idiot because you remembered the 1987 crash and kept your 401(k) in a 4 percent money market account; any fool could make a 10 percent return or more on the big board, people said. Now you don’t look so stupid, as stock market 401(k)s have lost half their value. Optimism comes in this form: in the most recent month, the nation lost 660,000 jobs, and a business commentator on the radio says it’s a good number because a month earlier 740,000 jobs
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SOMEPLACE LIKE AMERICA
My America is one of iconic landscapes, places of lost dreams and hard-lived lives. The Deep South: abandoned cotton gins and vine-covered shacks of tenant farmers. The Great Lakes region: rusting stacks of ghost steel mills on forested riverbars; the ruins of a Detroit hotel with a rotting piano collapsed on the floor of its ballroom, where one imagines giddy couples dancing away the nights after the men came home from World War II to an industrial America that promised a limitless tomorrow. All through the Midwest and the West: century-old grain silos; telegraph lines that now transmit only the
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