{"product_id":"cold-new-world-growing-up-in-harder-country-9780375753824","title":"Cold New World: Growing Up in Harder Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBarbarian Days, \u003c\/i\u003e this narrative nonfiction classic documents the rising inequality and cultural alienation that presaged the crises of today.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A status report on the American Dream  that] gets its power  from] the unpredictable, rich specifics of people's lives.\"--\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\" William] Finnegan's real achievement is to attach identities to the steady stream of faceless statistics that tell us America's social problems are more serious than we want to believe.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed by crack; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb. William Finnegan spent years embedded with families in four communities across the country to become an intimate observer of the lives he reveals in \u003ci\u003eCold New World\u003c\/i\u003e. What emerges from these beautifully rendered portraits is a prescient and compassionate book that never loses sight of its subjects' humanity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK - A \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST NONFICTION SELECTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCold New World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Unlike most journalists who drop in for a quick interview and fly back out again, Finnegan spent many weeks with families in each community over a period of several years, enough time to distinguish between the kind of short-term problems that can beset anyone and the longer-term systemic poverty and social disintegration that can pound an entire generation into a groove of despair.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The most remarkable of William Finnegan's many literary gifts is his compassion. Not the fact of it, which we have a right to expect from any personal reporting about the oppressed, but its coolness, its clarity, its ductile strength. . . . Finnegan writes like a dream. His prose is unfailingly lucid, graceful, and specific, his characterization effortless, and the pull of his narrative pure seduction.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Four astonishingly intimate and evocative portraits. . . . All of these stories are vividly, honestly and compassionately told. . . . While \u003ci\u003eCold New World\u003c\/i\u003e may make us look in new ways at our young people, perhaps its real goal is to make us look at ourselves.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375753824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.20w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/1999 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/1999 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/05\/1999 pg. 104\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William Finnegan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271755792565,"sku":"9780375753824","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_38611518-fd42-4292-ba44-7897400f2d3d.jpg?v=1699956678","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/cold-new-world-growing-up-in-harder-country-9780375753824","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}