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04981cam a2200709 a 4500 001 42DCEE24DF5611EB87A8BD9C2A3FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20210707140514 008 120710s2012 nyu 000 0deng 010 $a 2012025457 020 $a 042526727X 020 $a 9780425267271 020 $a 0399159002 020 $a 9780399159008 035 $a (OCoLC)785077612 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCO $d LIV $d ABG $d YDXCP $d CDX $d NSB $d ZAD $d BWX $d VP@ $d OIP $d TBS $d OKJ $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d FEM $d SFR $d OCLCQ $d GRC $d RCE $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d DVR $d TXUPP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CSA $d GILDS $d BRL $d JDP $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d NQN $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d COH $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d KK6 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD8072.5 $b .L37 2012 060 4 $a 305.562 L345h 082 00 $a 305.5/620973 $2 23 100 1 $a Laskas, Jeanne Marie, $d 1958- 245 10 $a Hidden America : $b from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work / $c Jeanne Marie Laskas. 260 $a New York : $b G.P. Putnam's Sons, $c ©2012. 300 $a 318 pages ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso. 505 0 $a Underworld : Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en AmeÌrica : Migrant Labor Camp, Cherryfield, Maine -- G-L-O-R-Y : Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Traffic : Air Traffic Control Tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York -- Guns "R" Us : Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona -- Beef : R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas -- The Rig : Pioneer Natural Resources Oil Rig, Oooguruk Island, off the Shores of Alaska's North Slope -- Sputter : I-80, Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa -- This is Paradise : Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California. 520 $a This book looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers. Five hundred feet underground, the author asked a coal miner named Smitty, "Do you think it's weird that people know so little about you?" He replied, "I don't think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works." This book intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, the author dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In this book the stories are about the people who make our lives run every day, and yet we barely think of them. The author spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New York's LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you will be amazed by what this book tells you about them: hidden no longer. 600 10 $a Laskas, Jeanne Marie, $d 1958- $x Travel $z United States. 650 0 $a Working class $z United States $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Working class $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Working class $z United States $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Manual work $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Subculture $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Description and travel. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 1980- 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 1971- 600 17 $a Laskas, Jeanne Marie, $d 1958- $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00366718 650 7 $a Manners and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007815 650 7 $a Manual work $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01007988 650 7 $a Social conditions $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 650 7 $a Subculture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136426 650 7 $a Travel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01155558 650 7 $a Working class. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180418 650 7 $a Working class $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180525 650 7 $a Working class $x Social life and customs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01180527 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 600 17 $a Laskas, Jeanne Marie, $d 1958- $x Travel. $2 sears 650 7 $a Working class $z United States $x Social conditions. $2 sears 650 7 $a Working class $z United States $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a Working class $z United States $x Social life and customs. $2 sears 650 7 $a Counter culture $z United States. $2 sears 651 7 $a United States $x Description and travel. $2 sears 651 7 $a United States $x Social conditions. $2 sears 651 7 $a United States $x Social life and customs. $2 sears 648 7 $a Since 1971 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20210708091229.0 $n 9 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=42DCEE24DF5611EB87A8BD9C2A3FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search