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Citizen Hobo : How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Citizen Hobo How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America
Author: Todd DePastino
In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes took command of downtown districts an...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226143781
ISBN-10: 0226143783
Publication Date: 9/30/2003
Pages: 350
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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