Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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.

With stark poignancy and political dispassion,*Tightrope*draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up, in rural Y...