<p>The 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And Their Children After Them presents four Californians--Black, White, Asian, Latino--and their search fo r a new center in the shrill immigration debate, and how it can guide the country. Graphs, maps.</p>

The Coming White Minority

History

Dale Maharidge

Americas

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

<p>Reveals the layers of life in small-town Denison, Iowa, from the efforts of a Lutheran woman to teach English to Latino immigrant meat-packing workers, to the town leaders who struggle to save the town from economic problems.</p>

Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Free Press

<p>Denison, Iowa, is as close to the heart of Middle America as it gets. The hometown of Donna Reed, Denison has adopted "It's a wonderful life" as its slogan and painted the phrase on the water tower that hovers over everything in town. And in many respects, life is pretty good here: it's a quiet town, a great place to raise children; the crime rate is low, the schools strong. It's home to the county's only Wal-Mart and a factory that does a booming business in antiterrorism barriers. For outsiders looking in, there is something familiar and comforting about Denison -- it conforms to the picture of the wholesome, corn-fed heartland which we as a nation cherish and which we think we know so well. <br> But something new and unfamiliar is happening in Denison, and traditional viewpoints and partisan labels don't quite capture it. The change goes beyond the post-9/11 loss of innocence; the sense of unease and, in some cases, of rebirth began well before 2001. Relations between the growing Latino population and the established Anglo citizenry are not always smooth. The industries that still predominate have become a mixed blessing for many people -- in the 1980s the meat-processing plant, for instance, froze wages, and they have remained basically static to this day. <br> For many years, Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson have made it their business to document interior America. In 1990 they won the Pulitzer Prize for their book And Their Children After Them, a conscious homage to the 1941 classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans. To gather their observations and insights on Denison, Maharidge and Williamson lived there for a year, spending time among the 8,000 people who live, love, work, run for office, go to school, and sometimes struggle to get by there. From the Lutheran woman who singlehandedly teaches English to Latino immigrants seeking grueling work in meatpacking plants to the leaders who struggle to rescue the community from economic ruin to the Latino businessman whose career is saved by two white men risking the wrath of small-town politics, the author and photographer trace the intersections of lives, the successes and failures, the real stories beneath Denison's mom-and-apple-pie surface. <br> Through Maharidge's gorgeous, plainspoken prose and Williamson's stunning photography, we are privy to a sweeping perspective layered with a microscopic depth of observation, and a searingly honest portrait tempered by heartfelt compassion. Denison, Iowa is a big, beautiful book about a small town at a critical time in our history -- and it's the crowning work of a brilliant, quarter-century partnership.</p>

<p>Profiles Montana Blackie, an elderly hobo who first hit the roads during the Great Depression, as he reminisces about his life and laments the changing attitude toward the homeless. By the author of And Their Children After Them. </p>

The Last Great American Hobo

Biographies & Memoirs

Prima Publishing

<p>Homeland is Pulitzer Prize winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and the roots of discontent that defy political affiliation. Here are American families who can no longer pay their medical bills, who've lost high-wage-earning jobs to NAFTA. And here are white supremacists who claim common ground with progressives. Maharidge's approach is rigorously historical, creating a tapestry of today as it is lived in America, a self-portrait that is shockingly different from what we're used to seeing and yet which rings of truth.</p>

Homeland

Photography & Video

Seven Stories Press

<p><div><b>Now an Audible Original "THE DEAD DRINK FIRST"</b></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of his service in the Marines was a photograph of himself and a buddy that he tacked to the basement wall. When his son, Dale Maharidge, set out to discover what happened to the friend in the photograph, he found that wars do not end when the guns go quiet. The scars and demons remain for decades. <i>Bringing Mulligan Home</i> is a story of fathers and sons, war, and what was, for some, a long postwar.<br /></div></p>

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War

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The Coming White Minority

Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town

Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town

The Last Great American Hobo

Homeland

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War