Homeland

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A white mob marches on a mosque in Chicago. A priest stands and tells his stunned parishioners that their intolerance must change. In West Virginia, a high school girl writes on her shirt, When I saw the dead and dying Afghani children on TV, I felt a newly recovered sense of national security.' The school board calls it a 'treasonous act.' The president signs a GBP350 billion tax cut. The United States launches 'preventive war'. Flag sales jump 150%. The flying flags cover a wound, but not the one we expect. Homeland sets a new standard for journalism.'

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Maharidge posits that we were a country in peril even before the terrorist attacks, a nation in which many were suffering in dire economic straits this book is a call for all Americans to examine our beliefs, our anger, our racial prejudices and the economic injustices fueling our unease. Los Angeles Times


InHomeland, Maharidge breaks new ground in the genre of 9/11 journalism by heading into heartland America. The tales Maharidge relates expose the synergy between economics and racism in Rust Belt communities, whose residents are the victims of post-industrial collapse and what he describes as a '30-year war against the working class.' In These Times

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When he isnt crossing the country talking to the people who live here, former newspaper reporter DALE MAHARIDGE has been a visiting professor of journalism at Columbia University and Stanford. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 198788. He lives in Northern California. MICHAEL WILLIAMSON is a photographer for the Washington Post who, in addition to the Pulitzer Prize he shares with Maharidge, won a second Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the war in Kosovo. His other honors include the World Press Photo and Nikon World Understanding Through Photography awards.