Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City -- Matthew Desmond, Paperback
"Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty."--San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Matthew Desmond
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 02/28/2017
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.95h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780553447453
About the Author
Matthew Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. He is the author of four books, including Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Carnegie Medal, and PEN / John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. The principal investigator of The Eviction Lab, Desmond's research focuses on poverty in America, city life, housing insecurity, public policy, racial inequality, and ethnography. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, and the William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, Desmond was listed in 2016 among the Politico 50 as one of "fifty people across the country who are most influencing the national political debate."
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