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But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America's booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a \u003ci\u003ethriving \u003c\/i\u003eone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country's \"Black Mecca\" after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children--and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation's working homeless. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation's hidden homeless--omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns heartbreaking and urgent, \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Place for Us\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness--and shows that it won't be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Goldstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Crown Publishing Group (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.45h x 6.46w x 1.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593237144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2024 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2025 pg. 6\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrian Goldstone is a journalist whose longform reporting and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Harper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe California Sunday Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. 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He has photographed and interviewed over ten thousand people in forty different countries around the world, including extensive series in Iran, Iraq, and Pakistan. During this time he has helped raise over $20 million in support of various causes and individuals that have been featured in his work. In 2013 \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine \u003c\/i\u003enamed him one of 30 under 30 Changing The World. In 2015, he became the first social media creator to be granted an interview in the Oval Office, with then President Barack Obama. He is also the author of four #1 NYT bestselling books, which have sold millions of copies around the world: \u003ci\u003eHumans of New York\u003c\/i\u003e (2013) \u003ci\u003eHumans of New York: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eHumans \u003c\/i\u003e(2020), and \u003ci\u003eTanqueray\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). He grew up in Atlanta and is a proud graduate of the University of Georgia. 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He was, in essence, above our democratic system. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars--he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is how he built and dominated New York--before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert A. 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CARO has twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, has three times won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and has also won virtually every other major literary honor, including the National Book Award, the Gold Medal in Biography from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians to the book that best \"exemplifies the union of the historian and the artist.\" In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal, stating at the time: \"I think about Robert Caro and reading \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker \u003c\/i\u003eback when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics.\" In 2016 he received the National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. The London \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e has said that Caro is \"The greatest political biographer of our times.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaro's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, \u003c\/i\u003eeverywhere acclaimed as a modern classic, was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of the twentieth century. It is, according to David Halberstam, \"Surely the greatest book ever written about a city.\" And \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003esaid: \"In the future, the scholar who writes the history of American cities in the twentieth century will doubtless begin with this extraordinary effort.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, \u003ci\u003e The Path to Power\u003c\/i\u003e, was cited by \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas \"proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro's evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson's unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually work, are--let it be said flat out--at the summit of American historical writing.\" Professor Henry F. Graff of Columbia University called the second volume, \u003ci\u003eMeans of Ascent\u003c\/i\u003e, \"brilliant. No review does justice to the drama of the story Caro is telling, which is nothing less than how present-day politics was born.\" The London \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ehailed volume three, \u003ci\u003eMaster of the Senate\u003c\/i\u003e, as \"a masterpiece . . . Robert Caro has written one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Passage of Power, \u003c\/i\u003evolume four, has been called \"Shakespearean . . . 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With this fascinating and meticulous account Robert Caro has once again done America a great service.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Caro has a unique place among American political biographers,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003esaid . . . \"He has become, in many ways, the standard by which his fellows are measured.\" And Nicholas von Hoffman wrote: \"Caro has changed the art of political biography.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn and raised in New York City, Caro graduated from Princeton University, was later a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and worked for six years as an investigative reporter for \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City with his wife, Ina, the historian and writer.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Robert A. 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