02940cam a2200541 i 4500 551460246 TxAuBib 20161018120000.0 160816s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016028929 9781683241300 hardcover : alk. paper 1683241304 hardcover : alk. paper (OCoLC)953441906 DLC rda eng DLC DON BTCTA BDX OCLCF KRX TxAuBib rda Laskas, Jeanne Marie, 1958- Hidden America : From coal miners to cowboys, an extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make this country work / Jeanne Marie Laskas. Center Point Large Print edition hardcover. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2016. 400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2012. The author dives deep into her subjects and emerges with character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day - and yet we barely think of them. Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio. Laskas spent several weeks with them, both below and above ground, and by the end, you will know not only about their work, but about Pap and his dying mom, Smitty and the mail-order bride who stood him up at the airport, and Scotty and his thwarted dreams of becoming a boxing champion. That is only one hidden world. Others that she explores: and Alaskan oil rig, a migrant labor camp in Maine, the air traffic control center at LaGuardia Airport in New York, a beef ranch in Texas, a landfill in Arizona, and the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders, mere footnotes in the moneymaking spectacle that is professional football. (from back cover). 20161018. Laskas, Jeanne Marie 1958- Travel United States. Laskas, Jeanne Marie 1958- Since 1971. Working class United States Social conditions. Working class United States Biography. Working class United States Social life and customs. Working class. Working class. Social conditions. Working class. Social life and customs. Manual work Social aspects United States. Manual work Social aspects. Subculture United States. Subculture. Large type books. Manners and customs. Social conditions. Travel. Biography. United States Description and travel. United States Social conditions 1980- United States Social life and customs 1971- United States.