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Matthew Desmond is a sociologist and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, where he is also the principal investigator of the Eviction Lab. Desmond was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. He was formerly the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Education Desmond studied as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, serving at the same time as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity in Tempe. In 2002, he graduated from ASU with a B.S. degree, summa cum laude in communications and justice studies. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Honors Desmond was awarded a Harvey Fellowship in 2006 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. He won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the 2017 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, and the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for his work about poverty, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. His 2017 Pulitzer Prize citation read, "For a deeply researched exposé that showed how mass evictions after the 2008 economic crash were less a consequence than a cause of poverty." Works Desmond, Matthew (2008). On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-14407-8. Emirbayer, Mustafa and Matthew Desmond (2009). Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 9780072970517 Emirbayer, Mustafa; Desmond, Matthew (2015). The Racial Order. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-25366-4. Desmond, Matthew (2016). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown/Archetype, 2016. ISBN 9780553447446 Desmond, Matthew (2018). "Why Work Doesn't Work Anymore." New York Times Magazine, p. 36, September 16, 2018. Desmond, Matthew (2019). "American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation." New York Times Magazine, 2019 (part of The 1619 Project). Desmond, Matthew (2021), "Capitalism", chapter in The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. Desmond, Matthew (2023). Poverty, by America. New York: Crown, 2023. ISBN 9780593239919References External links Official page of "Evicted" Appearances on C-SPAN Princeton tenure. Discover the Matthew Desmond popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Matthew Desmond books.
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Life and Death of the American Worker
Alice DriverWinner of the J. Anthony Lukas WorkinProgress Award, an explosive exposé of the toxic labor practices at the largest meatpacking company in America and the immigrant workers who ha...
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When We Walk By
Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh & Andrijana BilbijaHow to end homelessness in America: a mustread guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.A deeply humanizing analys...
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Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about wh...
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How Happiness Happens
Max LucadoThese are tough times. Amid global isolation, economic downturn, and social unrest, could you use a dose of happy right about now? Learn the secret to lasting joy that will endure ...
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The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
Laura Tillman“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of...
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A Paradise of Small Houses
Max PodemskiFrom the Haitianstyle “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish highrises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich ...
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Summary of Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond
Willie M. JosephDISCLAIMERThis book does not in any capacity mean to replace the original book but to serve as a vast summary of the original book.Summary of Poverty, by America By Matthew Desmond...
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The Meth Lunches
Kim FosterJames Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in America. Food is a conduit for connection; we envision smiling families gathered around...
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Abundance
Ezra KleinFrom bestselling authors and journalistic titans, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a onceinageneration, paradigmshifting call to rethink big, entrenched problems that se...