Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope
(2020)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
306.09/KRISTOF,N
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020
©2020
©2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780525655084, 0525655085
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The kids on the number 6 school bus -- "We're number 61!" -- When jobs disappear -- American aristocracy -- How America went astray -- Drug dealers in lab coats -- Losing the war on drugs -- Up by the bootstraps -- Deaths of despair -- Interventions that work -- Universal health care: one day, one town -- Homeless in a rich nation -- The escape artists -- A shot in the face -- God save the family -- The marriage of true minds -- We eat our young -- Raising troubled kids -- Creating more escape artists -- America regained