Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Very Good
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
An Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work....remainder mark on bottom of text block. Full dj and 318 clean pages. "Laskas has spent years finding and listening to the people we can't do without but sometimes forget are there".
Synopsis
An Oprah.com "Must-Read Book" In Hidden America , award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every dayand yet we barely think of them. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101723B
- Title
- Hidden America
- Author
- Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P Putnam
- Date Published
- 2012
- Pages
- 318
- Size
- octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- society, subculture, manual labor, occupations
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