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It Has to Be Read. • American Doom Loop by Dale Maharidge

Frank Schaeffer In Conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge, exploring the themes of his work and his book, American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s.


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Dale Maharidge is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them, and fourteen other books. Among them is Journey to Nowhere/The Saga of the New Underclass, which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song “Youngstown.” His most recent non-fiction book is American Doom Loop. His first novel Burn Coast was published in 2022. He has written for the Nation, Smithsonian, Harper’s, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.


Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass
By Maharidge, Dale, Williamson, Michael, Springsteen, Bruce
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