American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare Paperback - 2005
by Jason Deparle
Bill Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it" in his first run for president. Did it work? "New York Times" reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist DeParle follows three women in one extended family to a set of surprising answers.
Summary
In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason DeParle 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.
With a vivid sense of humanity, DeParle demonstrates that although we live in a country where anyone can make it, generation after generation some families don’t. To read American Dream is to understand why.
First line
Bruce Reed needed a better line.
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- Title American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
- Author Jason Deparle
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, U.S.A.
- Date August 30, 2005
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143034377 / 0143034375
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.52 x 0.91 in (21.34 x 14.02 x 2.31 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Public welfare - United States, United States - Social policy
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.556
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 126
- New York Review of Books, 12/15/2005, Page 76
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