NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER โข WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE โข ONE OF TIME โS TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE โข ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES โS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic โhas set a new standard for reporting on povertyโ (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review ). In Evicted , Princeton sociologist and MacArthur โGeniusโ Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as โwrenching and revelatoryโ ( The Nation ), โvivid and unsettlingโ ( 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 Americaโs most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: President Barack Obama, The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Fortune, San Francisco Chronicle, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Politico, The Week, Chicago Public Library, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction โข The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction โข The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction โข The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism โข The PEN/New England Award โข The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE โ Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.โ โAnn Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth โGripping and movingโtragic, too.โ โJesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones โ Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.โ โSan Francisco Chronicle
Recommended on 7 episodes:
- ๐ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
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- ๐ It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism by Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein
- ๐ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- ๐ The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley by Alex Haley, Malcolm X, M. S. Handler, Ossie Davis, Attallah Shabazz
- ๐ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
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- ๐ What A Party!: My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals by Terry McAuliffe, Steve Kettmann
- ๐ Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- ๐ Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
- ๐ Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, Nathan McCall
- ๐ Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick Smith
- ๐ Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman