The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it.
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Poverty, by America
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
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An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled
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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least likely to defend its core principles
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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic
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Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood
A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real
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Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences.
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Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “p…
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When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or did you avert your gaze?
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
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Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
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In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Ston…