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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

Deparle, Jason

Paperback

Poverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0143034375
ISBN13: 9780143034377
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Aug 30 2005
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle, author of A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves, cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an imprisoned man. Opal guards a tragic secret that threatens her kids and her life. DeParle traces their family history back six generations to slavery and weaves poor people, politicians, reformers, and rogues into a spellbinding epic.

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