Tightrope: Americans reaching for hope
(Book)
"With stark poignancy and political dispassion, this book draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence. Taken together, these accounts provide a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore." --From the publisher.
Kristof, N. D., & WuDunn, S. (2020). Tightrope: Americans reaching for hope. First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- and Sheryl WuDunn. 2020. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, of Penguin Random House LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- and Sheryl WuDunn, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
MLA Citation (style guide)Kristof, Nicholas D. and Sheryl WuDunn. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. First edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020.
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505 | 0 | |a The kids on the Number 6 school bus -- "We're no. 61!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care: one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained. | |
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