THE ROAD TO SOMEPLACE LIKE AMERICA: THE BLOG BEGINSOne of the many things I'm grateful for having been introduced to by Bruce Springsteen is the work of Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson. Since learning of their book
Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass in the Tom Joad era, I've devoured everything they've published together: going back to catch up on
And Their Children After Them and
The Last Great American Hobo, and following their work through
Homeland and
Denison, Iowa. In 1996, Springsteen contributed his thoughts to a new edition of
Journey to Nowhere; 15 years later he's introducing Mahardidge and Williamson's work again, with his foreward to their new
Someplace Like America: Tales From the New Great Depression, published by University of California Press.
Knowing that many other Springsteen fans appreciate these great books too, Backstreets is honored to host a blog, The Road to Someplace Like America. Dale has been dilligently crafting a series of videos that chronicle their 30 years of traveling around the country, reporting on America's "new underclass," hopping trains, exploring the ruins of the Jeannette Blast Furnace in Youngstown with Springsteen... and in the coming weeks we'll be posting them here. Thanks to Dale and Michael for sharing their stories with us, and we encourage you to check out Someplace Like America: It's on sale now in our online shop, also available from UC Press, and you can visit the book's Facebook page for additional images and more. I'll let them take it from here. —C.P.
http://www.backstreets.com/roadtoSLA.htmlWATCH THIS, TOO (30-YEAR-OLD KIPPERS!):
Someplace Like America: The background blog, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdzrW7nvbhE
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