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AMERICAN DREAM: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare.
by DeParle, Jason
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670892750
- ISBN 13
- 9780670892754
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About This Item
New York:: The Viking Press,, (2004.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.). First printing. A New York Times reporter investigates the claims of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it," which ultimately dropped nine million women and children from the rolls. He follows three women in one extended family along with a cast of politicians, reformers, case workers and rogues to trace the unlikely successes and haunting failures of "welfare reform" in the U.S.A. Timeline, notes, index. 421 pp.
Synopsis
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.
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- Title
- AMERICAN DREAM: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare.
- Author
- DeParle, Jason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670892750
- ISBN 13
- 9780670892754
- Publisher
- The Viking Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (2004.)
- Keywords
- welfare reform, milwaukee, single parents, african american families,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sociology and Current events;
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