Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons , and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J.
Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation\'s effort to provide affordable Housing to the poor--and what we can learn from those mistakes..
It is an account told movingly though the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the Housing complex\'s demise.
In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America\'s Public Housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities.
By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.
For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource--it was home.
Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government.
Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000--all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago\'s ritzy Gold Coast.
Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago\'s Cabrini-Green, America\'s most iconic Public Housing project.
Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons , and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J
