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- catalog abstract ""David Kirp has collected a variety of stories from across America to recreate the immediate experience of community - tales that signify in their particulars, giving meaning to the much bandied-about idea of civic virtue. They paint a rich picture of how, for better and for worse, Americans live together." "We meet two San Francisco families, one Nicaraguan and the other black, trying to live peacefully with each other; residents in the fire-ravaged Berkeley hills, whose greed and architectural ambitions thwart attempts to build the new Eden of their dreams; parents and teachers fighting against long odds to improve the East Harlem public schools; residents of a small southern town caring for a parentless teenager with AIDS; residents of the New Jersey suburb of Mount Laurel deciding whether poor families will be allowed to live in "our town"; and neighbors choosing sides when a black teenager kills his gay white neighbor. While there are real heroes - Ethel Lawrence, the Rosa Parks of the affordable housing movement; and Deborah Meier, tireless advocate for better schools - the stories are mainly about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events." "These tales reveal individuals in the process of forming new alliances or falling back on familiar ones, "howling alone" or promoting the common good."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11610700.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""David Kirp has collected a variety of stories from across America to recreate the immediate experience of community - tales that signify in their particulars, giving meaning to the much bandied-about idea of civic virtue. They paint a rich picture of how, for better and for worse, Americans live together."".
- catalog description ""We meet two San Francisco families, one Nicaraguan and the other black, trying to live peacefully with each other; residents in the fire-ravaged Berkeley hills, whose greed and architectural ambitions thwart attempts to build the new Eden of their dreams; parents and teachers fighting against long odds to improve the East Harlem public schools; residents of a small southern town caring for a parentless teenager with AIDS; residents of the New Jersey suburb of Mount Laurel deciding whether poor families will be allowed to live in "our town"; and neighbors choosing sides when a black teenager kills his gay white neighbor.".
- catalog description "Ironies in the fire : after the Berkeley-Oakland conflagration, a man-made nightmare -- Talk, not guns, in a San Francisco neighborhood -- A suburb at odds : the epic battle of Mount Laurel -- Houses divided : a gay man, his teenage neighbor, and a murder -- What school choice really means : fact and PR in East Harlem -- Good schools in bad times : reading, writing--and hustling for support--in LA -- Tales from the bright side : the surprising success of America's biggest community college -- Uncommon decency : Pacific Bell responds to AIDS -- The politics of need exchange : why what's banned in Boston is "best practice" in Seattle -- Look back in anger : hemophilia activism and the politics of medical disaster -- A boy's life : deadly sexual secrets in a southern town -- No angels, no demons : Shelby Steele refuses to see things in black and white -- The many masks of Richard Rodriguez -- Fault lines.".
- catalog description "While there are real heroes - Ethel Lawrence, the Rosa Parks of the affordable housing movement; and Deborah Meier, tireless advocate for better schools - the stories are mainly about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events." "These tales reveal individuals in the process of forming new alliances or falling back on familiar ones, "howling alone" or promoting the common good."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "viii, 350 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691049734 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1980-".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "307/.0973 21".
- catalog subject "Community life United States.".
- catalog subject "HN90.C6 K57 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ironies in the fire : after the Berkeley-Oakland conflagration, a man-made nightmare -- Talk, not guns, in a San Francisco neighborhood -- A suburb at odds : the epic battle of Mount Laurel -- Houses divided : a gay man, his teenage neighbor, and a murder -- What school choice really means : fact and PR in East Harlem -- Good schools in bad times : reading, writing--and hustling for support--in LA -- Tales from the bright side : the surprising success of America's biggest community college -- Uncommon decency : Pacific Bell responds to AIDS -- The politics of need exchange : why what's banned in Boston is "best practice" in Seattle -- Look back in anger : hemophilia activism and the politics of medical disaster -- A boy's life : deadly sexual secrets in a southern town -- No angels, no demons : Shelby Steele refuses to see things in black and white -- The many masks of Richard Rodriguez -- Fault lines.".
- catalog title "Almost home : America's love-hate relationship with community / David L. Kirp.".
- catalog type "text".