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In this eye-opening work of American history, Todd DePastino tells the epic story of the veritable army of homeless men that swept across America after the Civil War and crafts a stunning new interpretation of the "American century" in the process. Drawing on sources ranging from diaries, letters, and police reports to movies and memoirs, Citizen Hobo breathes life into the largely forgotten world of the road, but it also, crucially, shows how the hobo army so haunted the American body politic that it prompted the creation of an entirely new social order and political economy. In its breadth and scope, the book offers nothing less than an essential new context for thinking about Americans' struggles against inequality and alienation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Citizen Hobo
• Subtitle: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
• Author: Todd DePastino
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• EAN: 9780226143798
• ISBN: 0226143791
• ID: 04543976
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 536 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 164 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. July 2005

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