Without a
Map, Meredith Hall, cloth, April 2007, $24.95, 978-0-8070-7273-8
Washington Post, book included in a round-up of memoirs, to run in
the Sunday, August 26th issue
“Each chapter of Without a Map is polished and elegantly written
. . . the structure is shapely and the book yields poignant insights.”
The Missing
Class, Katherine S. Newman and Victor Tan Chen, September 2007,
Cloth, $24.95, 978-0-8070-4139-0
Print:
New York Times, book mention and author quoted in the August 26th
issue:
Those caught in this process around the country are gradually swelling what
Katherine S. Newman, a Princeton sociologist, describes as “The Missing
Class,” the title of a soon-to-be-published book (Beacon Press), of which
she is co-author.
Ms. Newman calculates that 54 million adults and children occupy a “nether
region” of family incomes well above the poverty line — but well
short of the middle class. Either they fall out of the middle class, as the
Winchells are in danger of doing, or they have never earned enough at one
job to get a family of four into the middle class.
“We are caught in a never-ending cycle of de-industrialization in which
the best jobs disappear,” Ms. Newman said. “It is amazing to me
how much we have come to accept that there is nothing to be done about this
loss of income.”
New Books from Other Publishers by Beacon Authors:
In October 2007, Viking will publish Marcus Rediker’s The Slave
Ship: A Human History ($27.95, 978-0-670-01823-9).
Marcus Rediker is the author of Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates
in the Golden Age (Beacon, 2004, 978-0-8070-5025-5) and co-author
of The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden
History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (Beacon, 2000, 978-0-8070-5006-4)
Beacon Press is a department of the