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Eyal Press, "Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America" (Picador, 2022)

Episode 31 Published 3 years, 3 months ago
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In the episode of Conversations from the Institute, we hear from Eyal Press, who is the author of Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City, and the Conflict that Divided America (2006), Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times (2012), and Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America, which won the Hillman Prize.

In the fall of 2002 he spoke about his book with Eliza Griswold, author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (2010), and Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize.

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