Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Jessica Bruder

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0393249328

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The inspiration for Chloé Zhao's 2020 Golden Lion award-winning film starring Frances McDormand. "People who thought the 2008 financial collapse was over a long time ago need to meet the people Jessica Bruder got to know in this scorching, beautifully written, vivid, disturbing (and occasionally wryly funny) book." —Rebecca Solnit From the beet fields of North Dakota to the campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older adults. These invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in RVs and modified vans, forming a growing community of nomads. Nomadland tells a revelatory tale of the dark underbelly of the American economy—one which foreshadows the precarious future that may await many more of us. At the same time, it celebrates the exceptional resilience and creativity of these Americans who have given up ordinary rootedness to survive, but have not given up hope.

Surviving America
Surviving America

Author: Larry Charles Peterson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1477142800

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Surviving America is a true story, an autobiography, of Larry Charles Peterson. Through the years Larry has had the hard luck experiencing bad things right during a time when America was experiencing similar hard luck. A professional victim of sorts, Mr. Peterson tells how he dealt with each situation. It's a good entertaining, honest read.

Surviving Southampton
Surviving Southampton

Author: Vanessa M. Holden

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0252052765

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The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

Surviving Justice
Surviving Justice

Author:

Publisher: McSweeney's

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1940450918

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On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice

Surviving America's Decline and the Progressive Agenda
Surviving America's Decline and the Progressive Agenda

Author: Mila Christine Bourdon

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1642982687

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After more than a decade in the Middle East, Grace Winders returns to the States only to find the warnings of her friends in Riyadh correct. This wasn't the robust America she'd left. This one was in decline with its unprecedented debt, lawlessness at the highest levels of government, lack of well-paying jobs resulting in a burgeoning underclass eking out a living on entitlements, its military weakened and influence around the globe diminished, its cities polluted by drugs and street gangs, the proliferation of sanctuary cities allowing illegal aliens pouring into the country freedom from the law, terrorist activity on our own soil, and political correctness making many of these changes possible. Dispirited by her angst-ridden experiences here, she fingers the country's liberal element and its progressive agenda as the cause of her woes. People like her just didn't seem to count in their new America eschewing both capitalism and the ideas of the founding fathers. Grace's story offers a voice in the conversation to those whom America's dogmatic left would forever silence.

Surviving Genocide
Surviving Genocide

Author: Jeffrey Ostler

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-06-11

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0300218125

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"Intense and well-researched, . . . ambitious, . . . magisterial. . . . Surviving Genocide sets a bar from which subsequent scholarship and teaching cannot retreat."--Peter Nabokov, New York Review of Books In this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effects of disease, deprivation, and exposure. This volume centers on the eastern United States from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War. An authoritative contribution to the history of the United States' violent path toward building a continental empire, this ambitious and well-researched book deepens our understanding of the seizure of Indigenous lands, including the use of treaties to create the appearance of Native consent to dispossession. Ostler also documents the resilience of Native people, showing how they survived genocide by creating alliances, defending their towns, and rebuilding their communities.

Surviving the Americans
Surviving the Americans

Author: Robert L. Hilliard

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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An autobiography centering around the American treatment of concentration camp survivors after World War II and the efforts by Hilliard and Edward Herman to change US policy. The author details the neglect and anti-semitism he found in German as a GI, encounters with survivors, and the letter campaign he initiated which resulted in Truman's change of policy as well as spurring relief organizations to extend help to the starving, sick, and dying. The account dispels the myth of the liberating Americans as "saviors," yet also inspires by its proof of how individuals may change the course of political events. Includes photographs. Lacks an index and bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Surviving American Medicine
Surviving American Medicine

Author: Cary Presant

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2012-09-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 147593775X

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We live in a time when the business of health care has superseded the care of health. Health-care reform isn't just political rhetoric it's a reality. Virtually every American understands that we are experiencing dramatic changes in the delivery of health care and the insurance programs that pay for it. In Surviving American Medicine, Dr. Cary Presant lays the foundation to help you take control of these issues and help you become your own advocate with inside tips about getting the best doctors, good insurance, safe hospitals, and affordable medicines, from an author and physician who is a national expert on health care. Relying on his forty years of experience, Presant empowers you to work with your team of doctors, nurses, hospitals, and even insurance companies to maintain your health and prolong your life. He helps you learn to make choices about your health so you feel confident you're getting the best treatment possible."

Surviving American History
Surviving American History

Author: Max Howard

Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC

Published: 2021-10-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1978595506

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Gabi is furious about her parents divorcing and moving her away from her hometown, her friends, and her school. But on the day she moves away, a shooter opens fire on Gabi's old school, killing her American History classmates. She knows she should have been in that classroom. Now Gabi has to navigate a new school and new social circles, while dealing with a looming dark cloud of grief, survivor's guilt, and fear. She meets impulsive troublemaker Lennon, who might just understand her dark side, or may pull her deeper into it.

Surviving on the Gold Mountain
Surviving on the Gold Mountain

Author: Huping Ling

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780791438633

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The first comprehensive work on Chinese American women's history covering the past 150 years.