Feeling good
Michael Rogin, 11 January 1990
The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream
by Studs Terkel.
Hamish Hamilton, 439 pp., £15.95, February 1989,0 241 12667 3 Show More
by Studs Terkel.
Hamish Hamilton, 439 pp., £15.95, February 1989,
More than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen
by Irene Glasser.
University of Alabama Press, 180 pp., $22.95, November 1988,0 8173 0397 9 Show More
by Irene Glasser.
University of Alabama Press, 180 pp., $22.95, November 1988,
“... the family farm. More than Bread hardly seems calculated to lighten the mood, for sociologist Irene Glasser, a participant-observer in the soup kitchen of a small New England city, forces on our attention the impoverished, alcoholic, physically disfigured and mentally disturbed inhabitants on the other side of the great divide. The decline in state ... ”