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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
288 pages
Description
"With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Yamhill, Oregon, 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 one-quarter of the children on Kristof's old school bus died in adulthood from...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 294 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Two Pulitzer Prize winners issue a call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women in the developing world. They show that a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad and that the key to economic progress lies in unleashing women's potential.
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