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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work

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An Oprah.com “Will have to-Read Book”

Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals “enlightening, entertaining, and continuously poignant”* profiles of The united states’s working class—the forgotten women and men who make our country run.

Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you are going to know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of turning into a boxing champion.

That may be only one hidden world. Others that she explores: an Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic keep watch over center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in California, a long-haul trucker in Iowa, a gun shop in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle That may be professional football.

“Jeanne Marie Laskas is a reporting and writing powerhouse. She doesn’t just interview the people who dig our coal and extract our oil, she goes deep into the mines and tundra with them. With beauty, wit, curiosity, and grace, she finds the hidden soul of The united states. Hidden America is very important reading.”—Rebecca Skloot, writer of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 

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