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03986aam a22005898a 4500 001 37135984904111E685A40C86DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170120010649 008 120710s2012 nyu 000 0deng 010 $a 2016028929 020 $a 9781683241300 020 $a 1683241304 040 $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 ZGJ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HD8072.5 $b .L37 2012 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. 250 $a Large print edition. 260 $a Thorndike, Maine : $b Center Point Large Print, $c 2016. 300 $a 400 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 500 $a 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. 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. 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. 600 10 $a Laskas, Jeanne Marie, $d 1958- $x Travel $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- 650 $a Large type books 941 $a 15 952 $l YKPE532 $d 20221013010410.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909042302.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215031714.0 952 $l TKPE492 $d 20211118020105.0 952 $l AQPC277 $d 20201212013010.0 952 $l SNPC104 $d 20201007134859.0 $m SNPC104 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20201002011326.0 952 $l SKPC094 $d 20191029010916.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717032542.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006101540.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20180728014220.0 952 $l MTPB743 $d 20180711032159.0 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20170623011255.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418120728.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20170311010317.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37135984904111E685A40C86DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b ZGJInitiate Another SILO Locator Search