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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

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Book name: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2024)
Category: Nonfiction
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Pages: 418 pages
ISBN13: 0553447432
ISBN: 0553447432
Language: English
Publication data: March 1, 2016, 8 a.m.
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-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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Matthew Desmond

Matthew Desmond

3 books

Matthew Desmond is social scientist and urban ethnographer. He is the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Eviction Lab at Princeton University. He is also a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine.

Desmond is the author of over fifty academic studies and several books, including "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City," which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, National Book Critics Circle Award, Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth… Read more