We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos-the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl-but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of twentieth-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps. Accompanied by more than one hundred images-many of them previously unseen and some formerly suppressed-Gordon has written a sparkling, fast-moving story that testifies to her status as one of the most gifted historians of our time. Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; a New York Times Notable Book; New Yorker's A Year's Reading; and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book.

About the Author
Winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, Linda Gordon is the author of The Second Coming of the KKK and a biography of photographer Dorothea Lange. She lives in New York and Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews
"A richly human portrait of the eminent photographer whose luminous Depression-era images had the democratizing impact of a Steinbeck novel." "The material is fascinating, and [the] presentation sterling."


Awards
Winner of Bancroft Prize 2010 and Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2009 and New York Times Notable Selection 2009.



Book Information
ISBN 9780393339055
Author Linda Gordon
Format Paperback
Page Count 560
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 991g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 38mm