Tightrope : Americans reaching for hope
by Kristof, Nicholas D., 1959- (Author), WuDunn, Sheryl, 1959- (Author)
Summary
A plea -- deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans -- to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. Full description
- The kids on the number 6 school bus
- "We're no. 61!"
- When jobs disappear
- American aristocracy
- How America went astray
- Drug dealers in lab coats
- Losing the war on drugs
- Up by the bootstraps
- Deaths of despair
- Interventions that work
- Universal health care: one day, one town
- Homeless in a rich nation
- The escape artists
- A shot in the face
- God save the family
- The marriage of true minds
- We eat our young
- Raising troubled kids
- Creating more escape artists
- America regained
- Appendix: Ten steps you can take in the next ten minutes to make a difference.