Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Author:	Kristof, Nicholas D. Wudunn, Sheryl
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9780525655084
Publisher:	Knopf
Language:	English
Page Count:	304
Publication Date:	1/14/2020
Size:	8.78" l x 5.59" w x 1.09"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Social Science	Sociology
Political Science	Human Rights
Social Science	Poverty

With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.

Drawing us deep into an “other America,” the authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the people with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon. It’s an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs disappeared.

About a quarter of the children on Kristof’s old school bus died in adulthood from drugs, alcohol, suicide, or reckless accidents. While these particular stories unfolded in one corner of the country, they are representative of many places the authors write about, ranging from the Dakotas and Oklahoma to New York and Virginia.

With their superb, nuanced reportage, Kristof and WuDunn have given us a book that is both riveting and impossible to ignore.