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On their way to jail, to deportation from the country, or to expulsion from school, those who confront the muscle of the state frequently see their rights bruised, their liberties wounded. This book is about some of those people. Therefore, it is about all of us.

David K. Shipler

On their way to jail, to deportation from the country, or to expulsion from school, those who confront the muscle of the state frequently see their rights bruised, their liberties wounded. This book is about some of those people. Therefore, it is about all of us.

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About David K. Shipler

David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. Among his other publications the book entitled, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, also has garnered many awards. Formerly, he was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times and served as one of their bureau chiefs. He taught at many colleges and universities. Since 2010, he has published the electronic journal, The Shipler Report. He began co-hosting the podcast, Two Reporters in 2021. A collection of his poems was published in 2023.