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An eye-opening account of life inside North Korea—a closed world of increasing global importance—hailed as a “tour de force of meticulous reporting” (The New York Review of Books), with a new afterword that revisits these stories—and North Korea more broadly—in 2022, in the wake of the pandemic
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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.
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Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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America's Rust Belt, first introduced as a concept in 1984 by Walter Mondale, is closely associated with the "Post-Industrial Midwest," and includes Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. The region reflects the country's manufacturing center, which, over the past forty years, has been in decline. Voices that emerge from familiar Rust Belt cities-- Detroit, Cleveland, Flint, and Buffalo, among others...
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea—deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans—to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story,...
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story,...
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Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The founder of Oscar Capital Management and SkyBridge Capital draws on insights and stories from his long-term relationship with Donald Trump to explain how the current administration's economic policies are promoting a thriving Wall Street.
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"Senator Elizabeth Warren narrates her new audiobook on the state of the nation with passion and conviction...This fascinating and informative audiobook offers an accessible explanation of the development and consequences of our nation's social and economic policies." — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.
The fiery U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and bestselling author offers a passionate, inspiring
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An award-winning journalist sets out on the road to explore the new phenomenon of "workampers" who are migrant workers made up of transient older Americans who took to the road after discovering that their social security came up short and their mortgages were under water.
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Passion River
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[2022]
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English
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This documentary highlights farmers and ranchers leaving behind conventional practices that are no longer profitable or sustainable. With quiet courage they are improving the health of our soil and sea to save their livelihoods, and our planet.
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