NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2008
"A useful counter against those who blame the poor for their bad luck."
Illuminating history of America's poor, disproving many stereotypes while emphasizing that the social safety net varies "depending upon who you are, when you live, and where you live."
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NONFICTION
Released: June 8, 2010
"A wildly frustrating and timely book appropriate for most readers."
Using a couple of heroes and more than a few foils, journalist Rivlin (
The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ron Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, 2001, etc.) dives into the dog-eat-dog world of Poverty, Inc.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 6, 2004
"A sobering work of investigation, as incisive--and necessary--as kindred reports by Michael Harrington, Jacob Riis, and Barbara Ehrenreich."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 5, 2008
"Sullivan's bracing, pared-to-the-bone prose evokes compassion by being impressively free of the narcissistic self-worship that so often infects books of this stripe."
Girl from the tough side of Brooklyn leaves behind her domineering mother and invents a new, fake life for herself in Manhattan in this hard-bitten autobiography.
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NONFICTION
Released: March 1, 2007
"Snapshots of people no one wants to think about, written with great candor by someone unafraid to reveal his own fears and prejudices."
National Book Award–winning novelist and journalist Vollmann (
Europe Central, 2005, etc.) asks street people why they think they're poor. Most have no answer.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 2005
"A pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps, thoroughly American story."
An account of growing up nomadic, starry-eyed, and dirt poor in the '60s and '70s, by gossip journalist Walls (
Dish, 2000).
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