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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:
Large print edition.
Publisher:
Center Point Large Print,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Subject:
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.
Laskas, Jeanne Marie,--1958---Travel--United States.
United States--Description and travel.
United States--Social conditions--1980-
United States--Social life and customs--1971-
Large type books
Notes:
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 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.
Summary:
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.
ISBN:
9781683241300
1683241304
LCCN:
2016028929
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)
KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)
SNPC104 -- Fairbank Public Library (Fairbank) — SNPC104
AQPC277 -- Lamoni Public Library (Lamoni)
TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)
HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)
WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)
SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)
BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)
MTPB743 -- West Bend Public Library (West Bend)

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