The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

by Bryant Simon

Book Overview

"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics."
--The Washington Post

A "gifted writer" (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have become the new American norm

For decades, the small, quiet town of Hamlet, North Carolina, thrived thanks to the railroad...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620972387
• ISBN13: 9781620972380
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"