Growing Up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America - Rilegato

Schwartz-Nobel, Loretta

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ISBN 10: 0060195630 ISBN 13: 9780060195632

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2002

Riassunto

The author of the landmark study Starving in the Shadow of Plenty draws attention to a rise in childhood hunger and starvation in the United States, noting a withdrawal of federal assistance and an increase in emergency food requests and calling readers to action.

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Recensione:

“A penetrating journalistic study that puts a human face on [hunger]. ... A wake-up call to policy makers.” (Kenneth Kusmer, author of Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History)

“Inspiring, heartbreaking and harrowing.” (Newark Star Ledger)

L'autore:

Loretta Schwartz-Nobel has won the Women in Communications Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Award, the Penny Missouri Award, the coveted Columbia Graduate School of Journalism Award, and has twice won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for outstanding coverage of the problems of the disadvantaged. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060195630
• ISBN 13: 9780060195632
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 252