Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

By Dale Maharidge

Book Overview

With a Foreword by Bruce Springsteen

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520274512
• ISBN13: 9780520274518
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.1"