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Author Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- author.

Title Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.562 KRISTOF    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  306.0973 KRISTOF    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  306.0973 KRI    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.0973 KRISTOF    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  306.0973 KRISTOF    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  306.0973 KRISTOF    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.0973 KRISTOFF, NICHOLAS D.    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  306.0973 KRI    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.0973 KRISTOF    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306.0973 KRI    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-293) and index.
Contents The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're number 30!" -- 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.
Subject Working class -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01180525
Genre/Form Case studies.
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
Genre/Form Informational works.
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. $2 bisacsh
Chronological Term Since 1980
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness. $2 bisacsh
Working class -- United States -- Social conditions.
Poor -- United States -- Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights. $2 bisacsh
Local Subject Poor people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Subject Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Poor -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01071151
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Added Author WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959- author.
Other Form: Online version: Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- author. Tightrope New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019] 9780525655091 (DLC) 2019015690
ISBN 9780525655084 (hardcover)
0525655085 (hardcover)
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