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From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu>
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Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3046] Book
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A suggestion to read a book came across my email and I thought that it
would be interesting to many of the subscribers of this listserv. I have
not read the book, but the description tempts me. I have copied and
pasted the information about that book below, but it makes me wonder if
people on this listserv would be interested in sharing what they believe
might be books of interest to individuals interested in issues related
to women and literacy. Feel free to list a book with author/without,
with commentary/without.
I will begin with the copy and paste job of what came across my email.
I hope that others will follow with other names of books (with as
much/little information attached to the titles as desired):
Jason Deparle, New York Times reporter on Welfare for the past 10
years
and author of the new book "American Dream: Ten children, three women
and a nations drive to end welfare"
Attached is information about the book from www.jasondeparle.com
Bill Clinton vowed to "end welfare as we know it" in 1992. Four years
later, Congress translated a catchy slogan into a law that sent nine
million women and children streaming from the rolls. Did it work? In
his
definitive book on this unprecedented upheaval in social policy, New
York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Jason DeParle
follows three women in one extended family to a set of surprising
answers.
Cutting between the corridors of Washington and the meanest streets of
Milwaukee, DeParle tracks the story from the White House to the local
crack house. After twelve years on welfare, Angie, a truculent mother
of
three, finds a job and a 401 (k)--and a boyfriend who tries to shoot
her. Her cousin Jewell, glamorous even in sweatpants, adores the
children she struggles to support. Opal combines an antic wit with an
appetite for cocaine while the welfare agency that is supposed to help
her squanders its millions.
Drawing on more than a decade of reporting, DeParle traces their story
back six generations to a common ancestor--a Mississippi slave--and
adds
politicians, case workers, reformers, and rogues to an epic
exploration
of America's struggle with poverty and dependency.
Book Reviews
"Courageous and deeply disturbing...transcend[s] journalism...DeParle
challenges the nation."
New York Times - September 26, 2004
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"A powerful, bracing antidote...masterful detail."
Los Angeles Times - September 17, 2004
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"DeParle brilliantly captures this gritty reality....It might even
become an instant classic along the lines of Anthony Lukas' 'Common
Ground'.''
New Orleans Times Picayune - September 26, 2004
________________________________________________________________
"Exhaustively researched and eloquently reported....clear-headed,
deeply sensitive, and richly informative.''
San Jose Mercury News - September 19, 2004
________________________________________________________________
"DeParle relates with authority and grace the compelling stories of
Angela Jobe, Jewell Reed and Opal Caples, common descendants of a
Mississippi slave, who bring their families to Milwaukee, a place
DeParle calls "the epicenter of the anti-welfare crusade."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - September 11, 2004
________________________________________________________________
"In its melding of storytelling, reporting, and history, it's
reminiscent of J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground, about busing in
Boston."
The Washingtonian - September 23, 2004
Daphne Greenberg
Assistant Professor
Educational Psych. & Special Ed.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3679
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu
Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3977
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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