Book
Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
A plea -- deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans -- to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525655084
- ISBN: 0525655085
- Physical Description: 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference. |
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- 28 of 28 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
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| Barry Lawrence - Mt. Vernon Library | 306.0973 KRI (Text) | 37884102934985 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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