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I'm a professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. I've published ten books, including And Their Children After Them, which won the 1990 non-fiction Pulitzer Prize. The most recent is Bringing Mulligan Home/The Other Side of the Good War (PublicAffairs). Before that I released the paperback edition of Someplace Like America/ Tales from the New Great Depression(University of California Press), with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen.

My books are all thematically connected, I believe, rooted in my curiosity about America and who we are as a people. I've documented the economic crisis since the 1980s. For working people, there is no other way to describe it. If you want, check out the afterword I wrote for the paperback of S ...more

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	The Dead Drink First 3.89 avg rating — 4,376 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War 3.95 avg rating — 382 ratings — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South by Dale Maharidge (Goodreads Author), Carl Mydans (Foreword), Michael Williamson (Photographer) 4.06 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 1989 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s 3.47 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression by Dale Maharidge (Goodreads Author), Bruce Springsteen (Foreword), Michæl S. Williamson (Photographs) 4.34 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Denison, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town by Dale Maharidge (Goodreads Author), Michael S. Williamson 3.52 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Burn Coast 3.72 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass by Dale Maharidge (Goodreads Author), Michael Williamson (Other Contributor) 4.51 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Homeland 3.84 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Great American Hobo by Dale Maharidge (Goodreads Author), Michael Williamson (Photographer) 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Check out these links about my Dad's missing WWII buddy if you are interested in my book that came out last year, Bringing Mulligan Home. We may be on course to bringing him home.

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“A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.”
― Dale Maharidge, The Last Great American Hobo

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“What I would say to people right now is that you can’t count on anything that you don’t do yourself,” Jim said. “If your hand don’t put it there, and you don’t provide for your own family yourself, by your own intelligence and by your own means, you can’t count on anybody else to do it for you.”
― Dale Maharidge, Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression

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“Margaret [Arlo] was once asked how she felt about her life over the past fifty years. The look in her eyes revealed that she understood the true question: How is it that you continued over fifty years to be as poor as you were at the beginning? ... 'I'm rich-poor,' she said. 'You see, I got my son. I got my Bible. That's all I need. I don't treasure nothin' on earth.”
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