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: 9780061714368

ISBN-10: 0061714364

ISBN-13: 9780061714368

Edition: 2008

Authors: Adam W. Shepard

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Adam Shepard graduated from college in the summer of 2006 feeling disillusioned by the apathy he saw around him and incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's famous works Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch-books that gave him a feeling of hopelessness over the state of the working class in America. Eager to see if he could make something out of nothing, he set out to prove wrong Ehrenreich's theory that those who start at the bottom stay at the bottom, and to see if the American Dream can still be a reality. Shepard's plan was simple. Carrying only a sleeping bag, the clothes on his back, and25 in cash, and restricted from using previous contacts or relying on his college education, he…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.946
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.