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Rolling Nowhere
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Ted Conover
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Viking

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In Ted Conover's first book, now back in print, he enters a segment of humanity outside society and reports back on a world few of us would chose to enter but a
Citizen Hobo
Language: en
Pages: 353
Authors: Todd DePastino
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling coun
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Pages: 354
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Categories: Social Science
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Class Unknown
Language: en
Pages: 289
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Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, as