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“In Homeland, Maharidge breaks new ground in the genre of 9/11 journalism by heading into heartland America . . . . The tales Maharidge relates expose the synergy between economics and racism in Rust Belt communities, whose residents are the victims of post-industrial collapse and what he describes as a ‘30-year war against the working class.’”—In These Times
“This book emerges as a sensitive, heartfelt examination of a wounded America whose wounds existed long before the terrorist attacks.”—Publishers Weekly
“A unique and insightful look at how America changed after the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001, and what it means for the future.”—The Sacramento Bee
Homeland is the fourth book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael Williamson. Maharidge offers an original and provocative thesis: 9/11 was not a genesis, but an amplifier of unease that had long been building in the United States. A complete picture of post-9/11 America, Maharidge argues, is not simply a picture of post-9/11 America, but a complicated portrayal taking into account deep-seated tensions, some going back three decades and more.
Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson’s Journey To Nowhere (1985) was the inspiration for two songs on Bruce Springsteen’s album The Ghost of Tom Joad. Their second book, And Their Children After Them, won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. The two also co-authored The Last Great American Hobo (1993), a biographical snapshot of the last Depression-era hobo in the final years of his life and times. Williamson, a staff photographer at The Washington Post, won a second Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for his work in Kosovo. Maharidge teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, previously taught journalism at Stanford University and was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1071162 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-01
- Released on: 2005-08-02
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.98" h x .78" w x 6.03" l, .94 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Longtime collaborators Maharidge and Williamson (And Their Children After Them, etc.) return with this provocative montage of photographs and reportage that addresses the state of the American psyche before and after September 11. Williamson's 40 stunning b&w photos and Maharidge's fractured, descriptive reportage both explore an America that is not so much marginalized as it is simply "invisible"—places and people beyond the economic, political and urban foci of mainstream reporting. It is a disturbing portrayal of an anguished and economically depressed America, for which "[w]hat happened on 9/11 was not a genesis, but an amplifier of unease that had long been building." Some sections focus on victims of post-9/11 intolerance (a young girl suspended from a West Virginia school for wearing antiwar messages on her T-shirts (school administrators thought she should see a psychologist), while others address more complex characters who are confused and angered by September 11 (a goth white supremacist in Chicago fights with Arab-Americans at school, calling them "human bitches"). Maharidge argues that contemporary America dangerously resembles the Weimar Republic, or "Heimat," that led to Nazi Germany. Despite his anecdotal evidence, the author's portrait of America as "consumed by anger and fear" will strike many as questionable at best. Sympathizers will see the argument more as a provocative call for American self-assessment than a rant. While it threatens at times to dissolve into a simple juxtaposition of tolerance versus bigotry, this book emerges as a sensitive, heartfelt examination of a wounded America whose wounds existed long before the terrorist attacks.
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Los Angeles Times
"Maharidge posits that we were a country in peril even before the terrorits attacks, a nation in which many were suffering is dire economic straits... this book is a call for all Americans to examine our beliefs, our anger, our racial prejudices and the economic injustices fueling our unease."
Publishers Weekly
"This book emerges as a sensitive, heartfelt examination of a wounded America whose wounds exsited long before the terrorist attacks."
