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Hidden America, from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas

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Hidden America, from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hidden America

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electronic resource eBook

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Jeanne Marie Laskas

Sub title

from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work

Summary

An Oprah.com "Must-Read Book" In Hidden America Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football

Table Of Contents

Underworld: Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en America: migrant labor camp, Cherryfield, Maine -- G-L-O-R-Y: Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Traffic: air traffic control tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York -- Guns 'r' Us: Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona -- Beef: R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas -- The rig: Pioneer National Resources oil rig, Oooguruk Island, off the shores of Alaska's North Slope -- Sputter: I-80, exit 284, Walcott, Iowa -- This is paradise: Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California

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