Shepard offers a compelling and inspiring work of investigative journalism in which the author, in a sort of anti-Nickel and Dimed experiment, sets out to see if someone who starts with nothing can still achieve the American Dream.
Subtitled Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, Scratch Beginnings chronicles Shepard\'s successful efforts to raise himself up from self-imposed rock bottom in one year\'s time--a personal odyssey that is sure to inspire anyone who reads about it, instilling new faith in the solid principles on which our democracy was built..
Shepard\'s Scratch Beginnings is the fascinating and eye-opening account of the grand social experiment the author undertook in response to Barbara Ehrenreich\'s Nickel and Dimed. -- New York Post Adam W.
The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, you\'ll make it--is alive and well.
DON\'T believe the naysayers.
Shepard offers a compelling and inspiring work of investigative journalism in which the author, in a sort of anti-Nickel and Dimed experiment, sets out to see if someone who starts with nothing can still achieve the American Dream
