Dale Maharidge is Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He has published seven books, including And Their Children After Them, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass. Michael S. Williamson is a photographer at the Washington Post who has collaborated with Maharidge on many of his books.
'Someplace Like America' is unrelenting prose... There's something doggedly heroic in this commitment to one of journalism's least glamorous, least remunerative subjects. -- George Packer New Yorker Evokes the Depression-era collaboration of Walker Evans and James Agee. Publishers Weekly Deserves high praise ... Undeniable relevance to today's American experience. Foreword Maharidge's straightforward-but-impassioned prose and Williamson's gritty black-and white photographs make you angry. They're an indictment. -- Joseph B. Atkins, University of Mississippi American Studies