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Titel: Almost Home � America� �s Love� Hate Relationship with Community
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Ver�ffentlichungsdatum: 2000
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0691049734
ISBN-13: 9780691049731
Bindung: Hardcover
Zustand: Like New

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For David Kirp, a gifted storyteller and journalist, the concept of community stretches beyond a cliched figure of speech to describe what happens when people make decisions that reshape one another's lives. For this volume, he has collected a fascinating variety of such stories from across America to re-create the immediate experience of community. We meet two San Francisco families, one Nicaraguan and the other black, trying to live peacefully with each other; residents in the fire-ravaged Berkeley hills, whose greed and architectural ambitions thwart attempts to build the new Eden of their dreams; residents of a small southern town caring for a parentless teenager with AIDS; residents of the New Jersey suburb of Mount Laurel deciding whether poor families will be allowed to live in "our town;" and neighbors choosing sides when a black teenager kills his gay white neighbor. These beautifully written tales reveal individuals in the process of forming new alliances or falling back on familiar ones. Each paints a rich picture of how, for better and for worse, Americans live together.

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David L. Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many books, including Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia. Some of the stories in Almost Home originally appeared in national magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's.

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