| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 262 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Prologue: Freedom in My Pocket -- It�s a Poor Rat That�s Got But One Hole: An Introduction to Living Poor in a Rich Country -- I. When the Desert Fails to Bloom: Albuquerque to Missoula via Vegas -- Pennies from Heaven -- Final Call for Socorro, Truth or Consequences, Hatch, Las Cruces . . . -- Everybody Out! Hands Up against the Bus! -- The Trucker�s Lament -- Keep Your Eyes on the Burrito -- Those Fools up at the VA -- Who You Calling “Food Stamps�? -- Next Stop, Sin City -- Wait Training |
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The Trash Bag Racer Rally and Other Extreme SportsFight! -- You Don�t Say -- Already Got a Job and a Lot of Good It Done Me -- The Singing Bus -- II. Leaving the City of Cranes: Boston to Milwaukee in Two Alimentary Acts -- Awash in a Great Green Sea -- Master and Commander -- I Just Hate to Travel Like This -- Y�all Shouldn�t Have Ate That Chicken -- Too-Tired Meets His Maker -- Ladies and Children First -- Anybody Asks You for the Time, You Don�t Have It -- Sick as a Downsized Dog -- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? |
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III. Going Coastal: Five Hundred Years of the Poverty Draft, New York to St. AugustinePort Question Authority -- The Amazing Debt-Defying Disappearing Bus -- Todos Que Hermanos -- Little Box of Terrors -- Dr. King on the Waterfront -- Ready to Die but Never Will -- What Did You Do with My Aunt? -- The Castillo Economy -- IV. The Fine Arts of Moving in Circles: El Monte to Bishop and Back -- Riding Along with Princess Di -- All Snakes, No Ladders -- Swagger -- The Philosopher-King Does Sacramento -- To See What There Is to See |
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Books Mobile and the Secret StashThis Place Is a Dump -- Ride in Beauty -- V. Living on Debts and Promises: Montgomery after the Boycott, New Orleans before the Storm -- Mickey�s Hot Little Cousin -- The Back Is Where It�s At -- Take a Deep Breath -- Vietnam Thirty Plus -- Snap! Judgments -- Lovebug -- Another Get-Poor-Quick Scheme -- The Borrowed Time Club -- Acknowledgments -- Author�s Note -- Notes -- Read On . |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Poor -- United States.
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Poverty -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
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Poor
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Poverty
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139993
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807096529 |
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0807096520 |
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9780807041376 |
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0807041378 |
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