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Three Women, Ten Kids, And A Nation's Drive To End Welfare
Penguin
September 2005
On Sale: August 30, 2005
432 pages ISBN: 0143034375 EAN: 9780143034377 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
In this definitive work, two-time Pulitzer finalist Jason
DeParle cuts between the mean streets of Milwaukee and the
corridors of Washington to produce a masterpiece of literary
journalism. At the heart of the story are three cousins
whose different lives follow similar trajectories. Leaving
welfare, Angie puts her heart in her work. Jewell bets on an
imprisoned man. Opal guards a tragic secret that threatens
her kids and her life. DeParle traces their family history
back six generations to slavery and weaves poor people,
politicians, reformers, and rogues into a spellbinding epic. With a vivid sense of humanity, DeParle demonstrates that
although we live in a country where anyone can make it,
generation after generation some families don't. To read
American Dream is to understand why.
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