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Action, the Center for Popular Economics, the <st1:place
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class, and inequality in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region> </st1:place>: <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
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Michael D. Yates discusses his new book <I
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trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American
literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and
interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> life,
bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and insight.
Disillusioned with academic life after thirty-two years teaching economics,
Michael D. Yates took early retirement in 2001. He and his wife Karen sold their
house, got rid of their belongings, and have moved around the country since
then, often spending months at a time on the road. <STRONG><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate</SPAN></I></STRONG> is
both an account of their adventures and a penetrating examination of work and
inequality, race and class, alienation and environmental degradation in the
small towns and big cities of the contemporary <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region></st1:place> .<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
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info call (413) 253-5432, or visit
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<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT></DIV><BR>erika arthur<BR>events coordinator<BR>food
for thought books<BR>106 n. pleasant st.<BR>amherst, ma
01002<BR>413.253.5432<BR>www.foodforthoughtbooks.com<BR>a worker-owned
collective bookstore since 1976<BR><BR>"The only dream worth having, I told her,
is to dream that you will live <BR>while you're alive and die only when you're
dead... To love. To be loved. <BR>To never forget your own insignificance. To
never get used to the <BR>unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life
around you. To seek <BR>joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.
To never <BR>simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To
respect <BR>strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand.
To <BR>never look away. And never, never to forget." <BR>-Arundhati Roy, "The
End of Imagination"<BR><BR>
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