Description
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.
About the Author
Dale Maharidge is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has published seven books, including And Their Children After Them, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass. Michael S. Williamson is a photographer at the Washington Post who has collaborated with Maharidge on many of his books.
Reviews
"'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 "Evokes the Depression-era collaboration of Walker Evans and James Agee." Publishers Weekly "Deserves high praise ... Undeniable relevance to today's American experience." Foreword "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
Book Information
ISBN 9780520274518
Author Dale Maharidge
Format Paperback
Page Count 276
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 28mm
About the Author
Dale Maharidge is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has published seven books, including And Their Children After Them, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass. Michael S. Williamson is a photographer at the Washington Post who has collaborated with Maharidge on many of his books.
Reviews
"'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 "Evokes the Depression-era collaboration of Walker Evans and James Agee." Publishers Weekly "Deserves high praise ... Undeniable relevance to today's American experience." Foreword "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
Book Information
ISBN 9780520274518
Author Dale Maharidge
Format Paperback
Page Count 276
Imprint University of California Press
Publisher University of California Press
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 28mm
