Jeanne Marie Laskas
Five hundred feet underground, Jeanne Marie Laskas asked a coal miner named Smitty, â€œDo you think itâ€™s weird that people know so little about you?â€ He replied, â€œI donâ€™t think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works.â€, Hidden America intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In Hidden America, the stories are about the people who make our lives run every dayâ€”and yet we barely think of them., Laskas spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New Yorkâ€™s LaGuardia Airport,, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long-haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you will be amazed by what Laskas tells you about them: hidden no longer.
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work