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Post by joesbo on Jan 3, 2014 17:11:22 GMT -8
" Citizen Hobo - How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America " - by Todd DePastino I have (re- I had a copy some years ago , never exactly liner-ly read it start to finish , but read most??) this book on order , cheap/used , from an Amazon seller . It is what it says , basically tracing American homelessness from the post-Civil War period to the post-WWII period LEADING UP into the Sixties . Anybody else ever read it
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Post by joesbo on Jan 3, 2014 17:48:25 GMT -8
...It is perhaps a little " semi-academic" in writing/set-up approach - but still readable (Barely !!!!!!!!! :-)) !
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Post by joesbo on Jan 18, 2014 16:44:14 GMT -8
...I received it , read it all !!!!!!!!! It is very interesting if , maybe , a bit stiff . It is not quite about " our " kind of homelessness , mostly , but traveling workers/jobos of the late 19th/early 20th century , especially . However , homeless/run-down neighborhoods of the time and social service people of the time's attempts at dealing with homelessness are coverd AT LENGTH , as well as vintage press !!!!!!!!!!! Even the IWW movement . ( DePastino keeps referring to that homeless world as " hobohemia " . Now , maybe people used it then ~ But it kept making me think of the verse of a certain Rogers & Hart song . )
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