Author: Grace H. Gardner
Publisher:
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Category : North Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Author: Everett Gleason Hill
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: Sheldon B. Thorpe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780832844096
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Lucy McTeer Brusic
Publisher: Phoenix Pub
ISBN: 9780914659204
Category : North Haven (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Michael Sletcher
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738524672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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From the days of the Quinnipiack Indians and the arrival of the first Puritan settlers in 1638, a fascinating cycle of prosperity, decline, and renewal has played out in the streets of New Haven and the quads of Yale University. Home to President Lincoln's bodyguard and the constitutional delegate whose compromise led to our nation's bicameral legislature, this Connecticut city has been the stage for a dramatic story of immigration, industry, and defiance.

Author: Sheldon Brainerd Thorpe
Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1619968843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: William Finnegan
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0307766144
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Barbarian Days, this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today. “A status report on the American Dream [that] gets its power [from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people’s lives.”—Time “[William] Finnegan’s real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America’s social problems are more serious than we want to believe.”—The Washington Post A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in Cold New World. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects’ humanity. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST NONFICTION SELECTION Praise for Cold New World “Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “The most remarkable of William Finnegan’s many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction.”—The Village Voice “Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While Cold New World may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer