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Evicted by Matthew Desmond
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - WINER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOKS 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 BOKS 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 WINER 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 BOK 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 BonesEvicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.--San Francisco Chronicle
Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50 as one of fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate.
SKU | CIN0553447459VG |
ISBN 13 | 9780553447453 |
ISBN 10 | 0553447459 |
Title | Evicted |
Author | Matthew Desmond |
Condition | very good |
Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
Year published | 2017-02-28 |
Number of pages | 448 |
Prizes | Winner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017, Winner of Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017, Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award 2016, Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize 2017, Winner of Eastern Sociological Society, Komarovsky Book Award 2017, Winner of MacArthur 'Genius' Award 2015, Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 2016, Winner of Order of the Coif Biennial Book Award 2018, Winner of PEN New England Award 2017, Winner of PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2017 |
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