Scratch beginnings: me, $25, and the search for the American Dream
Adam Shepard
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins, [2010]
- Copyright:
- ©2010
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- Summary:
- Recounts the experiences of the author, a college graduate, as he spends one year living as a homeless person and learns valuable lessons about what it takes to break out of the cycle of poverty in the United States.
- Table of Contents:
- Introduction : July 24-setting up
- Welcome to Crisis Ministries
- EasyLabor
- Another day, another dollar
- Big babies
- Sundays with George
- Hustle time
- Job hunting 101 with Professor Phil Coleman
- Put up or shut up
- "First and last day"
- Adventures in moving
- Movin' on up
- Workers' consternation
- Winter with bubble gum
- Culture shocked
- Fighting for respect
- One last move
- Epilogue : a year later: a didactic look at what I learned and where we go from here.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- Physical Description:
- xvi, 221 pages ; 21 cm
- Call Numbers:
- HC110.P6 S465 2010
- ISBNs:
- 0061714275
9780061714276 - OCLC Numbers:
- 419850369