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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

Laskas, Jeanne Marie

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 042526727X
ISBN13: 9780425267271
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Sep 3 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An Oprah.com Must-Read Book

Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant* profiles of America's working class--the forgotten men and women who make our country run.

Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion.

That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football.

Jeanne Marie Laskas is a reporting and writing powerhouse. She doesn't just interview the people who dig our coal and extract our oil, she goes deep into the mines and tundra with them. With beauty, wit, curiosity, and grace, she finds the hidden soul of America. Hidden America is essential reading.--Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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