Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Name: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780553447446

Matthew Desmond

awards won

score

Matthew Desmond

awards won

score

#1 of 3,809 books · #1 in Politics & Current Affairs

Won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2017), the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2017), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2016), and 1 more award. Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Evicted won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism, the PEN/New England Award, and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, and was a New York Times bestseller. In Evicted, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.

Buy this book at AmazonAd