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Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959-

Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope - 304 pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A land made for you and me? -- "We're no. 61!" -- 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.

ISBN: 9780525655084 0525655085

LCCN: 2019014592

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Since 1980

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poor--Social conditions.--United States
Working class--Social conditions.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Economic conditions--2009-

LC Class. No.: HN59.2 / K75 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 306.0973