Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass

Looks at America's homeless and poor, describes the life of modern hobos, and tells the stories of farm workers, illegal aliens, and the unemployed

Maharidge, Dale

Literature & Fiction

DOUBLEDAY

A journalistic look at poverty, homelessness, rootlessness, and the search for work in the US in the early 1980s. Photographs by Michael Williamson; text by Dale Maharidge. 192 pages; b&amp;w photos throughout; 8.5 x 10.75 inches.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

DIAL PRESS

AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM

Pantheon

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to lifethrough shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysisthe deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream mediapeople living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential studybegun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastropheputs a human face on today’s grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.

Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

Business & Money

Economics

University of California Press

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life―through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis―the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media―people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study―begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe―puts a human face on today’s grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.

And Their Children After Them

Looks at America's homeless and poor and tells the stories of farm workers, illegal aliens, and the unemployed

Williamson, Michael

SPRINGSTEEN,BRUCE

Hyperion

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.

The Coming White Minority: California's Eruptions and the Nation's Future

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Crown

Now an Audible Original "THE DEAD DRINK FIRST" 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. Bringing Mulligan Home is the book on which the hit Amazon Audible Original, The Dead Drink First, is based. Years after the initial publication of the book, Dale Maharidge and an ad-hoc team of committed researchers kept working to bring closure for Sgt. Maharidge, his family, and his mysterious friend. For fans of The Dead Drink First, this newly updated edition enriches and deepens the experience of the Audible Original, and provides---for the first time in print---a resolution to Maharidge's story of fathers and sons, war and the long oft-forgotten postwar for America's Greatest Generation.

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

PublicAffairs

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in 1990 In And Their Children After Them, the writer/photographer team Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson return to the land and families captured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s inimitable Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, extending the project of conscience and chronicling the traumatic decline of King Cotton. With this continuation of Agee and Evans’s project, Maharidge and Williamson not only uncover some surprising historical secrets relating to the families and to Agee himself, but also effectively lay to rest Agee’s fear that his work, from lack of reverence or resilience, would be but another offense to the humanity of its subjects. Williamson’s ninety-part photo essay includes updates alongside Evans’s classic originals. Maharidge and Williamson’s work in And Their Children After Them was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction when it was first published in 1990.

And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South

Seven Stories Press

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Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass

Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass

AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM

Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

And Their Children After Them

Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass

The Coming White Minority: California's Eruptions and the Nation's Future

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine

And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South