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“Someplace like America: tales from the new Great Depression” by Dale Maharidge and photographs by Michael S. Williamson

“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.”

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See also:

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520262478

http://youtu.be/aFuY4Hd79iE

http://bit.ly/H9CNyC

The recommended titles are in the Library of the International Institute. If you are interested in reading this recommendation, you can check its availability at catalog of the library

Someplace like America: tales from the new Great Depression / Dale Maharidge; photographs by Michael S. Williamson; with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen. — Berkeley [etc.] : University of California Press, cop. 2011. — X, 244 p. : ill. ; 24cm

ISBN 978-0-520-26247-8

HD 8072.5 .M33 2011