Someplace Like America Tales from the New Great Depression 1st Edition by Dale Maharidge, Michael Williamson 0520262476 9780520262478

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ISBN 10: 0520262476 

ISBN 13: 9780520262478

Author: Dale Maharidge, Michael S. Williamson

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.

Table of contents:

PART 1 AMERICA BEGINS A THIRTY-YEAR JOURNEY TO NOWHERE: THE 1980S

1 On Becoming a Hobo

2 Necropolis

3 New Timer

4 Home Sweet Tent

5 True Bottom

Photographs by Michael S. Williamson, Section I

PART 2 THE JOURNEY CONTINUES: THE 1990S

6 Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway

7 Waiting for an Explosion

8 When Bruce Met Jenny

PART 3 A NATION GROWS HUNGRIER: 2000

9 Hunger in the Homes

10 The Working Poor: Maggie and Others in Austin

11 Mr. Murray on Maggie

Photographs by Michael S. Williamson, Section II

PART 4 UPDATING PEOPLE AND PLACES: THE LATE 2000S

12 Reinduction

13 Necropolis: After the Apocalypse

14 New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead

15 Home Sweet Tent Home

16 Maggie: “Am I Doing the Right Thing?”

17 Maggie on Mr. Murray

PART 5 AMERICA WITH THE LID RIPPED OFF: THE LATE 2000S

18 Search and Rescue

19 New Orleans Jazz

20 Scapegoats in the Sun

21 The Dark Experiment

22 The Big Boys

23 Anger in Suburban New Jersey

Photographs by Michael S. Williamson, Section III

PART 6 REBUILDING OURSELVES, THEN TAKING AMERICA ON A JOURNEY TO SOMEWHERE NEW

24 Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town

25 A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City

26 The Phoenix?

27 Looking Forward — and Back

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