In <i>Someplace Like America</i>, 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 livi ...
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond.<br> <br> By providing an up-to-date and visually appealing understanding of important issues around global food and agriculture, <i>The Atlas of Food</i> maps out broad areas of investigation—contamination of food and water, overnutrition, micronutrient ...
Автор: Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
San Diego in the 1930s offers a lively account of the city’s culture, roadside attractions, and history—from the days of the Spanish missions to the pre-Second World War boom. The guide is revealing both in the opinions it embodies and in the juicy details it records—tidbits such as the bloodiest and most incompetently fought battle of the Mexican-American War, Emma Goldman’s abruptly terminated speech to local Wobblies in 1912, and even a del ...
After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the birthplace of General Motors and the “star” of the Michael Moore documentary <I>Roger & Me.</I> Hoping to rediscover and help a place that had once boasted one of the world’s highest per capita income levels but had become one of the country's mo ...
As Eve Ensler says in her inspired foreword to this book, «Jody Williams is many things—a simple girl from Vermont, a sister of a disabled brother, a loving wife, an intense character full of fury and mischief, a great strategist, an excellent organizer, a brave and relentless advocate, and a Nobel Peace Prize winner. But to me Jody Williams is, first and foremost, an activist.»<br /><br />From her modest beginnings to becoming the t ...
Called «the most unusually voyeuristic anthropology study ever conducted» by the <i>New York Times,</i> this groundbreaking book provides an unprecedented glimpse into modern-day American families. In a study by the UCLA Sloan Center on Everyday Lives and Families, researchers tracked the daily lives of 32 dualworker middle class Los Angeles families between 2001 and 2004. The results are startling, and enlightening. <i>Fast-Fo ...
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. <i>Doing the Best I Can</i> is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as «deadbeat dads.» Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly—without planning. The authors chronicle the high hopes for forgi ...
In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than thirty years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history. Son of California political royalty who forged his own political style against the tumultuous backdrop of a huge, balkanized state—and shoved to and fro by complex currents—Jerry Brown plumbed his visionary impulses as well as his grandiose ambitions. McFadden ...
Автор: Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration
Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, «anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming.» Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, the <i>WPA Guide to California</i> features some of the very best anonymous literature of its ...
