Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope

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Label

Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope

Title remainder

Americans reaching for hope

Statement of responsibility

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Creator

• trueKristof, Nicholas D., 1959-

Contributor

• Garner, Jennifer, 1972-
• OverDrive, Inc
• Books on Tape, Inc
• WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959-

Author

• trueKristof, Nicholas D., 1959-

Narrator

• WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959-
• Garner, Jennifer, 1972-

Subject

• Poor -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• trueUnited States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
• Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
• Case studies
• Audiobooks
• trueUnited States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
• Downloadable audiobooks

Genre

• Downloadable audiobooks
• trueCase studies

Language

eng

Summary

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue 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. With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue collar jobs disappeared. About one-quarter of these children died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. And while these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia. But here too are stories about resurgence, among them: Annette Dove, who has devoted her life to helping the teenagers of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as they navigate the chaotic reality of growing up poor; Daniel McDowell, of Baltimore, whose tale of opioid addiction and recovery suggests that there are viable ways to solve our nation's drug epidemic. Altogether, there emerges a picture of working-class families needlessly but profoundly damaged as a result of decades of policy mistakes. With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore

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Cataloging source

RECBC

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Literary text for sound recordings

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Music parts

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PerformerNote

Narrated by Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Target audience

adult

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