An edition of Evicted (2016)

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An edition of Evicted (2016)

Evicted

First Paperback Edition (7)
  • 4.3 (19 ratings) ·
  • 177 Want to read
  • 10 Currently reading
  • 30 Have read

In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

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Publisher
Broadway Books
Language
English
Pages
442

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Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city
2017, Thorndike Press
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Evicted
2017, Broadway Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
2017, Broadway Books
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Evicted
2017, Broadway Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
2016, Crown Publishers
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Evicted: poverty and profit in the American city
2016, Allen Lane
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New York
Copyright Date
2017

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Paperback
Pagination
xviii, 442p.
Number of pages
442

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Open Library
OL39800187M
Internet Archive
evictedpovertypr0000desm_t3y1
ISBN 10
0553447459
ISBN 13
9780553447453
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62701845

Work Description

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal in the book is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States.

Evicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."

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