Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399159002
- ISBN 13
- 9780399159008
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About This Item
LASKAS, Jeanne Marie: Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 318 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Working Classes – United States / Sociology / Working People-U.S.-Sociology & Reportage. Book and jacket condition: Very Good. Light smudges at the fore-edge of the book. Otherwise a near-fine copy with the interior pages clean and unmarked. Fine and on-target reportage on the unsung working heroes that help make this country work. Insightful and engrossing sociological and journalistic exploration reminiscent of the writings of Studs Turkel. Recommended. ISBN: 9780399159008
Synopsis
An Oprah.com "Must-Read Book" In Hidden America , award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every dayand yet we barely think of them. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football.
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- The Brooklyn Bookman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 671780323
- Title
- Hidden America
- Author
- Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399159002
- ISBN 13
- 9780399159008
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Nonfiction / Working Classes – United States / Sociology / Working People-U.S.-Sociology & Reportage
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