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David K. Shipler reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of four other books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, and Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has taught at Princeton University; at American University in Washington, D.C.; and at Dartmouth College. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Ragged Dick
or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Written by Horatio Alger
Introduction by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $11.00
“Alger was perhaps American Capitalism’s greatest and most effective propagandist.”—Richard Wright
Written to inspire schoolboys to strive for “honesty, industry, frugality, and a worthy ambition,” the novels of Horatio Alger (1832–99) are infused with great humanity, broad humor, and a surprisingly sophisticated view of Gilded Age propriety. Central to Alger’s philosophy is... Read more >
or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Written by Horatio Alger
Introduction by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $11.00
“Alger was perhaps American Capitalism’s greatest and most effective propagandist.”—Richard Wright
Written to inspire schoolboys to strive for “honesty, industry, frugality, and a worthy ambition,” the novels of Horatio Alger (1832–99) are infused with great humanity, broad humor, and a surprisingly sophisticated view of Gilded Age propriety. Central to Alger’s philosophy is... Read more >
A Country of Strangers
Blacks and Whites in America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $16.95
Choice Outstanding Academic Book
A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans as they encounter... Read more >
Blacks and Whites in America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $16.95
Choice Outstanding Academic Book
A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans as they encounter... Read more >
Rights at Risk
The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $28.95
An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.
With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s... Read more >
The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $28.95
An enlightening, intensely researched examination of violations of the constitutional principles that preserve individual rights and civil liberties from courtrooms to classrooms.
With telling anecdote and detail, Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler explores the territory where the Constitution meets everyday America, where legal compromises—before and since 9/11—have undermined the criminal justice system’s... Read more >
Rights at Risk
The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $12.99
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The Limits of Liberty in Modern America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 6, 2012
Price: $12.99
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The Rights of the People
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $12.99
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Written by David K. Shipler
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $12.99
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The Rights of the People
How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $16.95
An impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.
How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to... Read more >
How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $16.95
An impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.
How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize–winner David K. Shipler searches for the answers to... Read more >
The Rights of the People
How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $27.95
From the best-selling author of The Working Poor, an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.
How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize–winner... Read more >
How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $27.95
From the best-selling author of The Working Poor, an impassioned, incisive look at the violations of civil liberties in the United States that have accelerated over the past decade—and their direct impact on our lives.
How have our rights to privacy and justice been undermined? What exactly have we lost? Pulitzer Prize–winner... Read more >
The Working Poor
Invisible in America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00
Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are... Read more >
Invisible in America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $16.00
Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are... Read more >
The Working Poor
Invisible in America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $15.99
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Invisible in America
Written by David K. Shipler
Format: eBook, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 12, 2008
Price: $15.99
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