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Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression F First Edition
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- ISBN-100520262476
- ISBN-13978-0520262478
- EditionF First Edition
- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication dateJune 6, 2011
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Print length256 pages
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"'Someplace Like America' is unrelenting prose. . . . There's something doggedly heroic in this commitment to one of journalism's least glamorous, least remunerative subjects." (George Packer New Yorker 2013-04-29)
“Deserves high praise . . . . Undeniable relevance to today’s American experience.” (Foreword 2011-06-10)
“Maharidge’s straightforward-but-impassioned prose and Williamson’s gritty black-and white photographs make you angry. They’re an indictment.” (Joseph B. Atkins, University of Mississippi American Studies 2013-04-14)
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Through the voices and stories of working-class people, Maharidge and Williamson provide insight into the current situation, reminding us of the history of economic struggle and the importance of understanding our culture from the bottom up.” John Russo, co-author of Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown
This is a deeply felt and beautifully crafted book. Maharidge and Williamson are brave and clear-eyed in chronicling the struggle of America’s workers.” Todd DePastino, author of Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
"In this moving and urgent book, Maharidge and Williamson continue to dig through the social wreckage of three decades of economic plunder, courageously documenting the uprooted and displaced, the uncertain and the fearful. Someplace Like America peers into the dark heart of a society that has turned its back on working people--and that may be on the cusp of abandoning its dignity as well. In the smoldering occupational ruins of what once was, Maharidge also manages to find hopeful embers of what might one day be. A disturbing retrospective on twenty-five years of reporting on the long-term dissolution of the American dream." Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University, author of Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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- Publisher : University of California Press; F First Edition (June 6, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520262476
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520262478
- Item Weight : 1.13 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 1.5 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #894,841 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #478 in Poverty
- #3,140 in Discrimination & Racism
- #3,384 in Cultural Anthropology (Books)
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"Fucked at Birth's" title is not gratuitous--it comes from a graffito spray-painted inside the gas station on the cover of the book. I set off on a quest to ask a wide range of Americans what the flag on the outside of the service station and the writing inside meant to them. I drove across America, from California to New York City amid the height of the pandemic. Homeless camps in California. The Navajo Nation, BLM in Denver, meat packing towns in Nebraska and Iowa, Youngstown.
Before this I released "Snowden's Box" with Jessica Bruder, about my heretofore secret role in the Edward Snowden leak.
"The Dead Drink First" is my first Audible Original. But it's not a spoken book. It's a podcast about my 18-year-quest to bring my dad's missing WWII buddy home. He was buried near my father at Arlington National Cemetery in 2018. The Dead Drink First is based on dozens of hours of audio I recorded over the years, along with new audio. This podcast is a spinoff of my book "Bringing Mulligan Home/The Long Search for a Lost Marine," which was reissued this year by PublicAffairs with a new 9,000-word section of material. The podcast and book are different experiences for listeners/readers. Kind of like cousins. I hope people enjoy both.
The paperback of "Someplace Like America / Tales from the New Great Depression" came out in 2013, with photographs by Michael S. Williamson. Bruce Springsteen wrote a foreword. This book is about our 30 years of covering workers. We bring the story up to the present grim time for so many millions of Americans. We update the stories of the homeless we found back in the 1980s and found out how they are doing today.
In 1990 I won the non-fiction Pulitzer Prize for a book I did with Michael. "And Their Children After Them" followed the fates of the sharecroppers documented by James Agee and Walker Evans in "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." A new edition will be published on the 30th anniversary of the Pulitzer by Seven Stories Press in early 2020, with 7,000 new words of update, and a surprise for readers.
I have several Facebook pages. The author one: Go to Facebook and type in "Dale Dimitro Maharidge." Others: "Someplace Like America: The Book" and "Bringing Mulligan Home." If you are not a Facebook member, you can still view the pages typing in the titles, plus "Facebook", in Google.
Dale Maharidge - Winter 2021
My new book is "Somelace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression," with writer Dale Maharidge. Bruce Springsteen has written a foreword.
Someplace Like America will have three major sections of photographs, 81 total images. Many were taken over the past 30 years as Dale and I documented American workers who sometimes end up homeless. Other images were taken during my travels as a staff photographer at the Washington Post.
For more information, go to Facebook, where Dale has created a page. Type in "Someplace Like America: The book." If you don't have a Facebook acount, type that title in Google and add "Facebook" and the page will come up.
The book will be published by the University of California Press in May.
This account is being "built" by Amazon. Once I am able, I'll add some of my other missing books, such as "Homeland" with Dale.
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Difficult reading throughout, but a book that I will give to members of my family and friends.