Unlikely Fame
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Adult Life
Aria Da Capo
Author_David Wagner
Billie Holiday
biographical analysis
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Country Music
Crack Cocaine
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Folsom Prison Blues
Gym Shoes
Home Run
Ice Skating Rink
intergenerational poverty
Johnny Cash
Keller's Arrival
Keller’s Arrival
Larry Bird
Latchkey Kids
Mainstream Civil Rights Movement
Manual Arts High School
Perkins School
poverty impact on achievement
resilience research
RICHARD WRIGHT
Ruth's Career
Ruth’s Career
social mobility
socioeconomic barriers
structural inequality
Tv Figure
Uniform Slips
Wagner 2012a
White Fang
William Saroyan
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781612057149
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This unique book depicts the stories of Americans born in poverty, who achieved national or international fame. Accessible to students and lay readers, this scholarly study describes poverty as a disability that typically stunts important areas of growth in childhood. Wagner shows how poverty hampers individuals and groups for their entire lives, even many of those who emerge from poverty. Examples of individuals with difficult childhoods who faced residual lifelong challenges are presented in the stories of 27 Americans, including athlete Babe Ruth, birth control advocate Margaret Sanger, singer Billie Holliday, author Jack London, actress Marilyn Monroe, black leader Malcolm X, singer Johnny Cash, comedian Richard Pryor, author Stephen King, and entertainer Oprah Winfrey. In over 200 engaging and accessible pages, Unlikely Fame yields insight into successful individuals and how they coped, adapted and ultimately achieved success.
David Wagner is Professor of Social Work and Sociology at the University of Southern Maine and author of five previous books including the C. Wright Mills award-winning Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community and most recently, The Poorhouse: America's Forgotten Institution.
