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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Paperback - 2017 - 1st Edition

by Desmond, Matthew

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  • Title Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
  • Author Desmond, Matthew
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY), USA
  • Date 2017-02-28
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00LWKF_ns
  • ISBN 9780553447453 / 0553447459
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.95 x 5.2 x 1 in (20.19 x 13.21 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Geographic Orientation: Wisconsin
    • Locality: Milwaukee-Waukesha, Wi
  • Library of Congress subjects Poverty - United States, Cities and towns - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015027374
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.460

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Summary

In Evicted, Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

About the author

Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50 as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."