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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.

There are, in the United States, a significant and growing number of families who live on less than $2.00 per person, per day. That figure, the World Bank measure of poverty, is hard to imagine in this country - most of us spend more than that before we get to work or school in the morning.

America's World War II military was a force of unalloyed good. While saving the world from Nazism, it also managed to unify a famously fractious American people. At least that’s the story many Americans have long told themselves. Divisions offers a decidedly different view. Prizewinning historian Thomas A. Guglielmo draws together more than a decade of extensive research to tell sweeping yet personal stories of race and the military.

In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.

Il caso George Floyd infiamma l'America: Minneapolis senza pace: dietro la rivolta, la mano dei suprematisti, di Robert J. Armstrong; America in stato di coprifuoco. Scontro sugli infiltrati in piazza, di Federico Rampini; Lo sceriffo di Flint sfila con la protesta: "Ora facciamo la Storia", di Federico Rampini; Trump sul sagrato: "Bibbia e forze armate". E la rivolta accende la sua sfida con Biden, di Federico Rampini; New York, Saviano: "Dal fallimento di Obama al razzismo di Trump: saccheggi una questione sociale", di Roberto Saviano.

L'America al bivio 'Floyd': Michael Moore: "La gente non si fida più del governo. Troppi abusi non puniti", di Antonio Monda; Il caso Floyd e la "generazione sfortunata": i Millennial bianchi si saldano alla rivolta, di Federico Rampini; "Onestà e giustizia, non tagli". La scelta di Biden divide i Dem, di Federico Rampini; Perdonaci Rossella ti cancelliamo, di Natalia Aspesi; LeBron contro Trump, via alla sfida per il voto degli afroamericani, di Massimo Basile; Wall Street, il capitalismo al bivio "Floyd", di Francesco Guerrera; Anna Wintour: la rivolta e la sconfitta, di Natalia Aspesi.