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Hardcover The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression Book
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ISBN: 0316438065

ISBN13: 9780316438063

The Man Who Walked Backward: An American Dreamer's Search for Meaning in the Great Depression

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From Pulitzer Prize finalist Ben Montgomery, the story of a Texas man who, during the Great Depression, walked around the world -- backwards.

Like most Americans at the time, Plennie Wingo was hit hard by the effects of the Great Depression. When the bank foreclosed on his small restaurant in Abilene, he found himself suddenly penniless with nowhere left to turn. After months of struggling to feed his family on wages he earned digging...

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