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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Hardcover - 2016

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  • Title Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • Author Matthew Desmond
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), New York City, NY
  • Date 2016-03-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780553447439 / 0553447432
  • Weight 1.54 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.7 x 1.6 in (23.62 x 17.02 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Wisconsin
    • Locality: Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wi
  • Library of Congress subjects Poverty - United States, Cities and towns - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015027374
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.460

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Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/2016, Page 13
  • BookPage, 03/01/2016, Page 0
  • Choice, 09/01/2016, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2016, Page 122
  • New York Times Book Review, 03/10/2016, Page 25
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/04/2016, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 03/15/2016, Page 0

About the author

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50 as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."
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