The Working Poor: Invisible in America by Shipler, David K.
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by Shipler, David K.

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds...
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Author: David K. Shipler
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by Shipler, David K.

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

$265.60
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by Shipler, David K.

The Working Poor: Invisible in America

$265.60
Author: David K. Shipler
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty.

"This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." --The New York Times Book Review

As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology--hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor--white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy.

This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.

Author: David K. Shipler
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01/04/2005
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780375708213


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 05/01/2005 pg. 44
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 100
New York Times 02/06/2005 pg. 26

About the Author

DAVID K. SHIPLER reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of six previous books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, as well as Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught at Princeton, American University, and Dartmouth. He writes online at The Shipler Report.


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