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Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope
- Title
- Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
- Author
- Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959-
- Description
- 304 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Nicholas Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid addiction and recovery suggests that there are viable ways to solve our nation's drug epidemic. These accounts provide a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes.
- Subjects
- United States
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
- Informational works
- Working class > United States > Social conditions
- Poor > United States > Social conditions
- Case studies
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban
- Working class > Social conditions
- Social conditions
- Poor > Social conditions
- SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness
- POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights
- Economic history
- United States > Economic conditions > 2009-
- Since 1980
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-293) and index.
- Contents
- The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're number 61!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care : one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained -- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5227
- ISBN
- 9780525655084
- 0525655085
- 9780593171714
- 0593171713
- 0525655093
- 9780525655091
- 9780525655091 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019014592
- 40029685082
- OCLC
- 1091236838
- Author
- Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- author. Author
- Title
- Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- Social group: Married peopleNationality/regional group: New Yorkers (New York State)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-293) and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1980
- Added Author
- WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959- author. Author
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- Tightrope. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019] 9780525655091 (DLC) 2019015690
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029685082
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5227