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Author

Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958-

Title Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work / Jeanne Marie Laskas.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2012.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Special Collections Rosen	305.562 L334h 2012	---	Lib Use Only
Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction	305.562 Las	---	Available

Description	318 p. ; 24 cm.
Note	"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.
Contents	Underworld : Hopedale Mining, Cadiz, Ohio -- Hecho en America : Migrant Labor Camp, Cherryfield, Maine -- G-L-O-R-Y : Paul Brown Stadium, Cincinnati, Ohio -- Traffic : Air Traffic Control Tower, LaGuardia Airport, New York, New York -- Guns "R" us : Sprague's Sports, Yuma, Arizona -- Beef : R.A. Brown Ranch, Throckmorton, Texas -- The Rig : Pioneer National Resources Oil Rig, Oooguruk Island, off the Shores of Alaska's North Slope -- Sputter : I-80, Exit 284, Walcott, Iowa -- This is Paradise : Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California.
Source	NBK 9/12 PPL
Subject	Working class -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Working class -- United States -- Biography.
	Working class -- United States -- Social life and customs.
	Manual work -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Subculture -- United States.
	Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958- -- Travel -- United States.
	United States -- Description and travel.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
ISBN	9780399159008
	0399159002