Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, …
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a 2016 non-fiction book by American author Matthew Desmond. Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork, Desmond's goal in the book is to highlight the issues of extreme poverty, affordable housing, and economic exploitation in the United States.
Evicted was well-received and won multiple book awards such as the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. The Pulitzer committee selected the book "for a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty."
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Evicted
Hardcover, 418 pages
English language
Published 2016 by Allen Lane.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-26085-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 946534659
Evicted
Hardcover, 687 pages
English language
Published 2017 by Thorndike Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4328-4313-7Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 987212599
Evicted
Hardcover, 418 pages
English language
Published 2016 by Crown Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-44743-9Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 942055989
Evicted
Epub, 448 pages
English language
Published Aug. 12, 2017 by Broadway Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-44744-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 988322004
Evicted
Paperback
Published 2016 by Crown Publisher, 2016 First Edition.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8041-8975-0Copied ISBN!
Evicted
paperback, 448 pages
Published Feb. 28, 2017 by BROADWAY , Broadway Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-44745-3Copied ISBN!
Evicted
432 pages
English language
Published 2017 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-14-198331-8Copied ISBN!
Evicted
Paperback
Published by Guang XI Shi Fan Da Xue Chu Ban She/Tsai Fong Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-7-5598-0330-6Copied ISBN!
Evicted
English language
Published 2016 by Penguin Books, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-26087-6Copied ISBN!
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