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The memories that people have of dogs they have loved and lost are
almost always of the animal in his final years; somehow, those are
the images we treasure most. There is a reason. Old dogs can be
rheumy-eyed and grump, gray of muzzle, graceless of gait, eccentric
of habit, pimply, wheezy, lazy, lumpy. But that is not the whole of
him. The old dog is resolute. He is canny. He is noble. She is
funny, and seems to know it. She is sweetly vulnerable. He has
character and dignity and an elegance of bearing that belies his
circumstances, and above all, he seems at peace. You'd call that
wisdom, if it didn't sound so silly. Old Dogsis a portrait book
featuring 60 classic black and white photographs of sweet old
dogs-Michael Williamson has photographed store-front dogs, mutts,
elegant purebreds, junkyard dogs, little dogs, and big dogs. With
their stories-sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and sometimes
uplifting-- told by Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post, the old
dogs featured in this book will captivate any dog lover.
In "Someplace Like America," writer Dale Maharidge and photographer
Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of
America, bringing to life--through shoe leather reporting, memoir,
vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis--the
deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in
1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being
ignored by the mainstream media--people living on the margins and
losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then,
Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million
miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a
Pulitzer Prize in the process). In "Someplace Like America," they
follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to
present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going
jobless. This brilliant and essential study--begun in the
trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking
catastrophe--puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It
also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next
generation faces the future.
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