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Author:

Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958-

Title:

Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work / Jeanne Marie Laskas.

Edition:

Berkley trade paperback edition.

Publisher:

Berkley Publishing Group,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

318 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Laskas, Jeanne Marie,--1958---Travel--United States.
Working class--United States--Social conditions.
Working class--United States--Biography.
Working class--United States--Social life and customs.
Manual work--Social aspects--United States.
Subculture--United States.
United States--Description and travel.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Social life and customs--1971-

Notes:

Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2012. New Book -- December -- 2013

Contents:

Underworld: Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en America: 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 National 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.

ISBN:

9780425267271 (pbk.)
042526727X (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)822532849

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)