Dale Maharidge,Bruce Springsteen,MichÃ¦l S. Williamson
With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen, In ,Someplace Like America,, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to lifeâ€”through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysisâ€”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 mediaâ€”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 studyâ€”begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastropheâ€”puts a human face on todayâ€™s grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future., Â 
Nonfiction,Politics,Sociology,Economics,History,Art,Photography,Writing,Journalism,Labor,Social Issues
Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression