{"product_id":"the-tribes-of-america-paul-cowan-9781595582300","title":"The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures","description":"First published in 1979 and long out of print, \u003ci\u003eThe Tribes of America\u003c\/i\u003e is an overlooked classic--a prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting from the front lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America. Long before Tom Frank asked, \"What's the matter with Kansas?\" \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e reporter and civil rights activist Paul Cowan set out to \"to cross the sound barrier of dogma and test  his] beliefs against the realities of American life\" by investigating what he called the \"professional, religious, ethnic, and racial tribes--the Tribes of America.\" From reporting on a vicious battle over school textbooks in West Virginia, the school busing crisis in Boston, and the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, to the fight over low-income housing in Forest Hills, Queens, and the 1972 conspiracy trial of Eqbal Ahmad, Father Philip Berrigan, and others, Cowan journeyed deep into misunderstood communities across the nation to depict American struggles, prejudices, and hopes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his introduction, Rick Perlstein writes that Cowan's \"agonized sensitivity to battlefields then barely emergent makes for one of the most remarkable books I have ever read by any journalist.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Tribes of America\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful model for engaged journalism and an enormously illuminating portrait of a nation at war with itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Cowan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1595582304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781595582300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 5.50w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 60","brand":"Paul Cowan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372423631103,"sku":"9781595582300","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb835545-b1e1-46a5-b382-f4ba3999e848.jpg?v=1732725903","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tribes-of-america-paul-cowan-9781595582300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}