The Resource Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas
Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas
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The item Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Swedenborg Library, Bryn Athyn College.
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- Summary
- This book looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers. Five hundred feet underground, the author asked a coal miner named Smitty, "Do you think it's weird that people know so little about you?" He replied, "I don't think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works." This book intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, the author dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In this book the stories are about the people who make our lives run every day, and yet we barely think of them. The author spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New York's LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you will be amazed by what this book tells you about them: hidden no longer
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 318 pages
- Note
- "Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso
- Contents
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- Underworld : Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio
- Hecho en America : Migrant Labor Camp, Cherryfield, Maine
- G-L-O-R-Y : Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Traffic : Air Traffic Control Tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York
- Guns "R" us : Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona
- Beef : R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas
- The Rig : Pioneer Natural Resources Oil Rig, Oooguruk Island, off the Shores of Alaska's North Slope
- Sputter : I-80, Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa
- This is Paradise : Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California
- Isbn
- 9780399159008
- Label
- Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work
- Title
- Hidden America
- Title remainder
- from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Subject
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- Manual work -- Social aspects -- United States
- Subculture -- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958- -- Travel -- United States
- Working class -- United States -- Biography
- Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
- Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers. Five hundred feet underground, the author asked a coal miner named Smitty, "Do you think it's weird that people know so little about you?" He replied, "I don't think people know too much about the way the whole damn country works." This book intends to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, the author dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and revelatory. In this book the stories are about the people who make our lives run every day, and yet we barely think of them. The author spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New York's LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona gun shop, the cab of a long haul truck in Iowa, and the stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders. Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you will be amazed by what this book tells you about them: hidden no longer
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Laskas, Jeanne Marie
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD8072.5
- LC item number
- .L37 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Working class
- Working class
- Working class
- Manual work
- Subculture
- Laskas, Jeanne Marie
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Label
- Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Note
- "Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Underworld : Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en America : Migrant Labor Camp, Cherryfield, Maine -- G-L-O-R-Y : Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Traffic : Air Traffic Control Tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York -- Guns "R" us : Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona -- Beef : R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas -- The Rig : Pioneer Natural Resources Oil Rig, Oooguruk Island, off the Shores of Alaska's North Slope -- Sputter : I-80, Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa -- This is Paradise : Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California
- Control code
- ocn785077612
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 318 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399159008
- Lccn
- 2012025457
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)785077612
- Label
- Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work, Jeanne Marie Laskas
- Note
- "Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Underworld : Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en America : Migrant Labor Camp, Cherryfield, Maine -- G-L-O-R-Y : Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Traffic : Air Traffic Control Tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York -- Guns "R" us : Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona -- Beef : R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas -- The Rig : Pioneer Natural Resources Oil Rig, Oooguruk Island, off the Shores of Alaska's North Slope -- Sputter : I-80, Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa -- This is Paradise : Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California
- Control code
- ocn785077612
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 318 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399159008
- Lccn
- 2012025457
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)785077612
Subject
- Manual work -- Social aspects -- United States
- Subculture -- United States
- United States -- Description and travel
- United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
- Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958- -- Travel -- United States
- Working class -- United States -- Biography
- Working class -- United States -- Social conditions
- Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
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