Someplace Like America

Dale Maharidge is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has published seven books, including And Their Children After Them, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass. Michael S. Williamson is a photographer at the Washington Post who has collaborated with Maharidge on many of his books.

• Foreword by Bruce Springsteen Someplace Like America: An Introduction Snapshots from the Road, 2009 Part 1. America Begins a Thirty-Year Journey to Nowhere: The 1980s 1. On Becoming a Hobo 2. Necropolis 3. New Timer 4. Home Sweet Tent 5. True Bottom Part 2. The Journey Continues: The 1990s 6. Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway 7. Waiting for an Explosion 8. When Bruce Met Jenny Part 3. A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2 9. Hunger in the Homes 10. The Working Poor: Maggie and the Invisible Children 11. Mr. Murray on Maggie Part 4. Updating People and Places: The Late 2s 12. Reinduction 13. Necropolis: After the Apocalypse 14. New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead 15. Home Sweet Tent Home 16. Maggie: "Am I Doing the Right Thing?" 17. Maggie on Mr. Murray Part 5. America with the Lid Ripped Off: The Late 2s 18. Search and Rescue 19. New Orleans Jazz 20. Scapegoats in the Sun 21. The Dark Experiment 22. The Big Boys 23. Anger in Suburban New Jersey Part 6. Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America on a Journey to Somewhere New 24. Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town 25. A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City 26. The Phoenix? 27. Looking Forward--and Back Coda Acknowledgments and Credits Notes

"'Someplace Like America' is unrelenting prose... There's something doggedly heroic in this commitment to one of journalism's least glamorous, least remunerative subjects." -- George Packer New Yorker "Evokes the Depression-era collaboration of Walker Evans and James Agee." Publishers Weekly "Deserves high praise ... Undeniable relevance to today's American experience." Foreword "Maharidge's straightforward-but-impassioned prose and Williamson's gritty black-and white photographs make you angry. They're an indictment." -- Joseph B. Atkins, University of Mississippi American Studies