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Pulitzer Prize Winners Nicholas D. Kristof And Sheryl WuDunn Write About Americans Reaching For Hope

Book cover for "Tightrope"

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling "Half the Sky" now issue a plea, deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans, to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.

Their new book is "Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope."

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