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Book, 2012
Current format, Book, 2012, Scribner trade paperback edition Fiftieth anniversary edition, All copies in use.
Book, 2012
Current format, Book, 2012, Scribner trade paperback edition Fiftieth anniversary edition, All copies in use. Offered in 0 more formats
When this book was first published in 1962, it was hailed as an explosive work and became a galvanizing force for the War on Poverty. The author shed light on the lives of the poor - from farm to city - and the social forces that relegated them to poverty. He was determined to make poverty in the United States visible, and his observations and analyses have had a profound effect on our country - from how we view the poor to the policies implemented to fight poverty. In the fifty years since it was published, this book has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This book is still all too relevant for today's America.
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