Bibliograph

Someplace like America, tales from the new Great Depression, Dale Maharidge ; photographs by Michael S. Williamson with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen

Type

Label

Someplace like America, tales from the new Great Depression, Dale Maharidge ; photographs by Michael S. Williamson with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-244)

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Someplace like America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

668191587

Responsibility statement

Dale Maharidge ; photographs by Michael S. Williamson with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen

Sub title

tales from the new Great Depression

Summary

Travel to the working-class heart of America, and follow the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. Starting in 1980, Maharidge and Williamson have investigated the state of the working class. They follow the lives of several families over a thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless

Table Of Contents

Forward by Bruce Springsteen -- Someplace like America: an introduction -- Snapshots from the road, 2009 -- America begins a thirty-year journey to nowhere: the 1980s -- The journey continues: the 1990s -- A nation grows hungrier: 2000 -- Updating people and places: the late 2000s -- America with the lid ripped off: the late 2000s -- Rebuilding ourselves, then taking American on a journey to somewhere new

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