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Traveling light : on the road with America's poor /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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 . .