Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a new standard for reporting on poverty" (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as "wrenching and revelatory" (The Nation), "vivid and unsettling" (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction - The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - The PEN/New England Award - The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE "Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books."--Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth "Gripping and moving--tragic, too."--Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones
"Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty."--San Francisco Chronicle
"Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty."--San Francisco Chronicle
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0553447459
ISBN13:9780553447453
Release Date:February 2017
Publisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Length:448 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Great book
Published by Teri , 2 years ago
This book dives into the world of real life people dealing with the current housing market and the struggles of housing instability. Definitely recommend!
Unforgettable
Published by Nicole , 4 years ago
A must read for anyone who truly wants to understand the deeper levels of the American economy and housing divide. Everyone should read this at some point in their lives. Unforgettable
This is a great book
Published by Felix , 5 years ago
Very insightful, very sad to see a broken system with broken people. Effects on everyone.
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