Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

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New York Times Best Seller 

"A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion."—Tara Westover, author of Educated    

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.

With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America."...Read more
  • ISBN10 0525655085
  • ISBN13 9780525655084
  • Publish Date 14 January 2020
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 10 January 2022
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf