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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780553447453
- Book Title
- Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Law, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Public Policy / General, Poverty & Homelessness, General, Landlord & Tenant, Sociology / Urban
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0553447459
ISBN-13
9780553447453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234823952
Product Key Features
Book Title
Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Public Policy / General, Poverty & Homelessness, General, Landlord & Tenant, Sociology / Urban
Genre
Law, Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-027374
Reviews
"Astonishing... Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on poverty." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review "After reading Evicted , you'll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing. . . . The book is that good, and it's that unignorable."-- Jennifer Senior, New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2016 "This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read. . . . It is beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable." --Bill Gates "Inside my copy of his book, Mr. Desmond scribbled a note: 'home = life.' Too many in Washington don't understand that. We need a government that will partner with communities, from Appalachia to the suburbs to downtown Cleveland, to make hard work pay off for all these overlooked Americans." --Senator Sherrod Brown , Wall Street Journal "My God, what [ Evicted ] lays bare about American poverty. It is devastating and infuriating and a necessary read." --Roxane Gay , author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women "Written with the vividness of a novel, [ Evicted ] offers a dark mirror of middle-class America's obsession with real estate, laying bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions have become just another part of an often lucrative business model." --Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times "In spare and penetrating prose . . . Desmond has made it impossible to consider poverty without grappling with the role of housing. This pick [as best book of 2016] was not close." --Carlos Lozada, Washington Post "An essential piece of reportage about poverty and profit in urban America." -- Geoff Dyer, The Guardian 's Best Holiday Reads 2016 "It doesn't happen every week (or every month, or even year), but every once in a while a book comes along that changes the national conversation. . . . Evicted looks to be one of those books." --Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review "Should be required reading in an election year, or any other." --Entertainment Weekly "Powerful, monstrously effective . . . The power of this book abides in the indelible impression left by its stories." --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar "Gripping and important . . . [Desmond's] portraits are vivid and unsettling." --Jason DeParle, New York Review of Books "An exquisitely crafted, meticulously researched exploration of life on the margins, providing a voice to people who have been shamefully ignored--or, worse, demonized--by opinion makers over the course of decades." --The Boston Globe "[An] impressive work of scholarship . . . As Mr. Desmond points out, eviction has been neglected by urban sociologists, so his account fills a gap. His methodology is scrupulous." -- Wall Street Journal, "Astonishing... Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on poverty." --Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review "After reading Evicted , you'll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing. . . . The book is that good, and it's that unignorable."-- Jennifer Senior, New York Times "This book gave me a better sense of what it is like to be very poor in this country than anything else I have read. . . . It is beautifully written, thought-provoking, and unforgettable." --Bill Gates "Inside my copy of his book, Mr. Desmond scribbled a note: 'home = life.' Too many in Washington don't understand that. We need a government that will partner with communities, from Appalachia to the suburbs to downtown Cleveland, to make hard work pay off for all these overlooked Americans." --Senator Sherrod Brown , Wall Street Journal "My God, what [ Evicted ] lays bare about American poverty. It is devastating and infuriating and a necessary read." --Roxane Gay , author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women "Written with the vividness of a novel, [ Evicted ] offers a dark mirror of middle-class America's obsession with real estate, laying bare the workings of the low end of the market, where evictions have become just another part of an often lucrative business model." --Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times "In spare and penetrating prose . . . Desmond has made it impossible to consider poverty without grappling with the role of housing. This pick [as best book of 2016] was not close." --Carlos Lozada, Washington Post "An essential piece of reportage about poverty and profit in urban America." -- Geoff Dyer, The Guardian "It doesn't happen every week (or every month, or even year), but every once in a while a book comes along that changes the national conversation. . . . Evicted looks to be one of those books." --Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review "Should be required reading in an election year, or any other." --Entertainment Weekly "Powerful, monstrously effective . . . The power of this book abides in the indelible impression left by its stories." --Jill Leovy, The American Scholar "Gripping and important . . . [Desmond's] portraits are vivid and unsettling." --Jason DeParle, New York Review of Books "An exquisitely crafted, meticulously researched exploration of life on the margins, providing a voice to people who have been shamefully ignored--or, worse, demonized--by opinion makers over the course of decades." --The Boston Globe "[An] impressive work of scholarship . . . As Mr. Desmond points out, eviction has been neglected by urban sociologists, so his account fills a gap. His methodology is scrupulous." -- Wall Street Journal
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
339.4/60973
Synopsis
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF TIME 'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a new standard for reporting on poverty" (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review ). In Evicted , Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each 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 twenty-first-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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama - The New York Times Book Review - The Boston Globe - The Washington Post - NPR - Entertainment Weekly - The New Yorker - Bloomberg - Esquire - BuzzFeed - Fortune - San Francisco Chronicle - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Politico - The Week - Chicago Public Library - BookPage - Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal - Publishers Weekly - Booklist - Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction - The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - The PEN/New England Award - The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE " Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books." --Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth "Gripping and moving--tragic, too." --Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones " Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty." --San Francisco Chronicle, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE * ONE OF TIME 'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a new standard for reporting on poverty" (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review ). In Evicted , Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each 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 twenty-first-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. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction * The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism * The PEN/New England Award * The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE " Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books." --Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth "Gripping and moving--tragic, too." --Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones " Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty." --San Francisco Chronicle, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - ONE OF TIME 'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a new standard for reporting on poverty" (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review ). In Evicted , Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each 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 twenty-first-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. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction - The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction - The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - The PEN/New England Award - The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE " Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books." --Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth "Gripping and moving--tragic, too." --Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones " Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty." --San Francisco Chronicle
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- Jan 02, 2018Top favorable review
A must read for those on both sides of the equation.
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