Scratch Beginnings Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream

Name: Scratch Beginnings Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream
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ISBN: 9780061714276

ISBN-10: 0061714275

ISBN-13: 9780061714276

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Authors: Adam W. Shepard

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What can you get with $25 and a dream?Adam Shepard graduated from college feeling disillusioned by the apathy around him and was then incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's famous work Nickel and Dimed-a book that gave him a feeling of hopelessness about the working class in America. He set out to disprove Ehrenreich's theory-the notion that those who start at the bottom stay at the bottom-by making something out of nothing to achieve the American Dream.Shepard's plan was simple. With a sleeping bag, the clothes on his back, and $25 in cash, and restricted from using his contacts or college education, he headed out for Charleston, South Carolina, a randomly selected city with one…

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Adam Shepard is a 2006 graduate of Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, where he majored in business management and Spanish. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.



Acknowledgments


Disclaimer and Author's Notes


Introduction July 24-Setting Up



Welcome to Crisis Ministries



Easy Labor



Another Day, Another Dollar



Big Babies



Sundays with George



Hustle Time



Job Hunting 101 with Professor Phil Coleman



Put Up or Shut Up



"First and Last Day"



Adventures in Moving



Movin'on up



Workers' Consternation



Winter with Bubble Gum



Culture Shocked



Fighting for Respect



One Last Move


Epilogue: A Year Later: A Didactic Look at What I Learned and Where I Go from Here