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9780452278967

Rosa Lee : A Mother and Her Family in Urban America

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  • ISBN13:

    9780452278967

  • ISBN10:

    0452278961

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-09-01
  • Publisher: Plume

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Summary

Based on a series of Pulitzer Prize-winning articles, this harrowing account of life in the urban underclass offers compelling testimony in the ongoing national debate about welfare reform. In "Rosa Lee, Washington Post" reporter Leon Dash vividly chronicles the hardships and pathologies of the daily life of a family in the slums.

Author Biography

Leon Dash won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for the series of articles upon which Rosa Lee is based. A staff reporter for the investigative and special projects department of The Washington Post, he is also the author of When Children Want Children (Penguin), and lives in Mt. Rainier, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1(14)
One Crisis After Another
15(22)
Just Trying to Survive
37(30)
Rosetta's Legacy
67(26)
A Hell of a Rush
93(28)
Serious Time
121(26)
Another Way of Life
147(26)
A Daughter Watches and Learns
173(20)
The Third Generation
193(24)
Coming Full Circle
217(32)
Epilogue 249(26)
Acknowledgments 275

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