American Pictures: A Personal Journey Through the American UnderclassFrom 1971 to 1978 the author, a Dane, hitchiked across more than 100,000 miles of America. This volume, written at the journey's end, contains some 700 of the photographs he took, and describes his odyssey. |
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Page 91
... everywhere . But malnutrition reduces the body's resistance to disease . Death from hunger will therefore on a death certificate be explained away as , for instance , pneumonia . Everywhere in the South I saw these little epitaphs ...
... everywhere . But malnutrition reduces the body's resistance to disease . Death from hunger will therefore on a death certificate be explained away as , for instance , pneumonia . Everywhere in the South I saw these little epitaphs ...
Page 292
... everywhere was a fresh breeze in my life after the detachment and reticence I had known in Europe . But the warmth and openness of the American people stood in such glaring contrast to the cruel and inhuman system I had met everywhere ...
... everywhere was a fresh breeze in my life after the detachment and reticence I had known in Europe . But the warmth and openness of the American people stood in such glaring contrast to the cruel and inhuman system I had met everywhere ...
Page 300
... Everywhere drivers spoke a racist language I only rarely heard on my first journey and everywhere it seemed that my old liberal friends were now trapped in fear , looking for short - sighted solutions . As a result , conditions of the ...
... Everywhere drivers spoke a racist language I only rarely heard on my first journey and everywhere it seemed that my old liberal friends were now trapped in fear , looking for short - sighted solutions . As a result , conditions of the ...
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