@article{453526,
      recid = {453526},
      author = {Laskas, Jeanne Marie,},
      title = {Hidden America : from coal miners to cowboys, an  extraordinary exploration of the unseen people who make  this country work /},
      publisher = {G.P. Putnam's Sons,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {318 p. ;},
      year = {2012},
      note = {"Published simultaneously in Canada"--T.p. verso.},
      abstract = {This book looks at the remarkable men and women whose  low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of  the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant  laborers and air traffic controllers.  Five hundred feet  underground, the author asked a coal miner named Smitty,  "Do you think it's weird that people know so little about  you?" He replied, "I don't think people know too much about  the way the whole damn country works."  This book intends  to fix that. Like John McPhee and Susan Orlean, the author  dives deep into her subjects and emerges with  character-driven narratives that are gripping, funny, and  revelatory. In this book the stories are about the people  who make our lives run every day, and yet we barely think  of them.  The author spent weeks in an Ohio coal mine and  on an Alaskan oil rig; in a Maine migrant labor camp, a  Texas beef ranch, the air traffic control tower at New  York's LaGuardia Airport, a California landfill, an Arizona  gun shop, the cab of a long haul truck in Iowa, and the  stadium of the Cincinnati Ben-Gals cheerleaders.  Cheerleaders? Yes. They, too, are hidden America, and you  will be amazed by what this book tells you about them:  hidden no longer.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453526},
}