{"product_id":"someplace-like-america-tales-from-the-new-great-depression","title":"Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \"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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince then, Maharidge and Williamson have travelled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \"\u003cem\u003eSomeplace Like America\u003c\/em\u003e\", 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dale Maharidge, Michael S. Williamson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42073248530601,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/like_8b6433d6-442f-4922-bc96-c3ab406580b8.jpg?v=1647748061","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/someplace-like-america-tales-from-the-new-great-depression","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}