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Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

By: Ellen Levine,Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

By: Ellen Levine,Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

President Ronald Reagans chief advisor on domestic affairs announced in December 1980 that poverty has been virtually wiped out in the United States and the systems of government aid have been a brilliant success. Now, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty lays bare the horrifying truth. For the first time since Robert Kennedy traveled the muddy back roads of Mississippi and the war on poverty rose and fell, starvation in America is documented. Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, twice winner of the Robert Kennedy Memorial Award for articles on hunger, has retraced Kennedys steps and found that Marasmus and Kwashiorkor, the most extreme diseases of protein and calorie deficiency, still exist in the United States today. The author spent seven years traveling across the country and speaking to the hungry in rural shacks, urban ghettos, on Indian reservations and in previously middle class homes. Her book is their story, told in their own words. But it is also the story of federal corruption and abuse. The government of the United States turns countless numbers of eligible people away from existing food programs, it allows millions of infants to be malnourished and it seems to be oblivious to citizens who are starving and dying. Starving in the Shadow of Plenty is the first in a series on hunger in America. The authors newest book, Growing Up Empty, the voices and politics of starving children in America, a 25 year retrospective, will be published by Harper Collins, Cliff Street Books in 2002.

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1475918763

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9781475918762

Growing Up Empty

The Hunger Epidemic in America

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Growing Up Empty

The Hunger Epidemic in America

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Already lauded as "a deft blend of tough investigative reporting and deep compassion . . . an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims" by the most respected senators, members of Congress, journalists and hunger advocates in the country, Growing Up Empty is a study of a hidden epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels. A call to action that will reenergize the national debate on the federal government's priorities, Growing Up Empty is advocacy journalism at its best. In 1981, President Reagan incongruously announced to the world that there were no hungry souls in the richest nation in the world, that poverty had been virtually wiped out. But Schwartz-Nobel had found a different story in America's communities, and she laid bare the horrifying truth about hunger in the United States in her landmark work on hunger, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty. That book caused Americans to reexamine their priorities. Twenty years later, Schwartz-Nobel returned to see how things had improved -- and discovered that it was all the same. As she tracked this hidden political and emotional battle, she was shocked to find that hunger is deeper and wider than she could have imagined, that it has reached epic proportions. It is running rampant through urban, rural and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians, Jews and nonbelievers alike. And it is getting worse. The stories of the people she encountered are the core of Growing Up Empty. With a combination of skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's sympathetic and humanistic eye for detail, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel portrays an unforgettable reality of human suffering that need not exist. Among the people we come to know in these pages are the new breed of homeless born of the "Welfare to Work" program -- working poor who have jobs but do not make enough to support their families-, immigrants who work under horrifying conditions for little money and fewer benefits; a formerly middle-class dentist's wife abandoned by her husband, reduced to stealing in order to feed her hungry children; soldiers who fight on our front lines, while their hungry young wives and children stand on bread lines and are denied benefits and baby formula at military health clinics. In the "affecting and powerful" Growing Up Empty, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel has found the shrouded and silent victims of our public policies and brings us into their homes and hearts.

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Harper

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0060195630

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9780060195632

Poisoned Nation

Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Poisoned Nation

Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Deadly Greed An award-winning investigative journalist links the soaring epidemics of cluster illnesses and many other diseases to the chemical pollution of our water, air, food, and everyday products for the profit and power of a reckless few. With irrefutable evidence and moving personal stories of the sick and dying, Loretta Schwartz-Nobel demonstrates that the human equivalent of global warming is already upon us. She shows how governments of both parties operate in tandem with America's most notorious polluters and how they have deceived the public, buried evidence of spreading disease, and suppressed critical scientific data. She traces relationships between organizations whose products cause diseases and those who profit from diagnosing and treating them, as well as their efforts to avoid research into environmental causes and possible cures. Poisoned Nation is an urgent call for action that delineates the problem with such clarity that the truth shines through. The author issues a plea to religious leaders of all faiths to work together for change, to create a public health movement to defeat greed and guide us toward a safer, healthier future.

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St. Martin's Press

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146685684X

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9781466856844

The Journey

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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The Journey

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

The Journey takes place during the last hours of an elderly woman’s life. As she drifts in and out of consciousness, she relives a twenty-seven year search for her lost lover. Moving between past and present and crossing into the afterworld, the novel recreates in simple, lyrical prose a stunning love affair between two middle aged, married people. When David Hamilton, a fifty-one year old artist and loner spots Laura Williams, a quietly desperate forty year old wife and mother, a connection is made that will haunt them both forever. The Journey explores the boundaries of erotic love, spiritual love, maternal love, guilt, empathy and responsibility. It touches upon the struggle between sexuality, aging and illness, enlarging our understanding of the body’s hunger for continuance and connection. It reveals a passion so strong that it fuses the souls of a man and woman and carries them beyond life.

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166

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iUniverse

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0595203620

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9780595203628

Forsaking All Others

The Real Betty Broderick Story ; Including Prison Interviews

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Forsaking All Others

The Real Betty Broderick Story ; Including Prison Interviews

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Biography of convicted murderess Betty Broderick.

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0679416013

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9780679416012

Growing Up Empty

How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Children

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Growing Up Empty

How Federal Policies Are Starving America's Children

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Growing Up Empty is a study of the hidden hunger epidemic that still remains largely unacknowledged at the highest political levels and "an unforgettable exploration of public policy, its failures and its victims" (William Raspberry, Washington Post). Twenty years after Ronald Reagan declared that hunger was no longer an American problem, Schwartz-Nobel shows that hunger has reached epic proportions, running rampant through urban, rural, and suburban communities, affecting blacks, whites, Asians, Christians and Jews, and nonbelievers alike. Among the people we come to know are the new homeless. Born of the "Welfare to Work" program, these working poor have jobs but do not make enough to support their families, such as the formerly middle-class housewife reduced to stealing in order to feed her children, or the soldier fighting on our front lines while his young wife stands in bread lines and is denied benefits and baby formula at a military health clinic. With skillful investigative reporting and a novelist's humanitarian eye for detail, Schwartz-Nobel portrays a haunting reality of human suffering that need not exist. A call to action, Growing Up Empty is advocacy journalism at its best.

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Harper Collins

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0060954868

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9780060954864

Engaged to Murder

The Inside Story of the Main Line Murders

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Engaged to Murder

The Inside Story of the Main Line Murders

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Tells the story of a Philadelphia schoolteacher and her two children who were callously murdered apparently as part of an insurance scheme

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Jove Publications

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0515098396

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9780515098396

Poisoned Nation

Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics

By: Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics

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Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

By: Ellen Levine,Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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By: Ellen Levine,Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

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Book's by Loretta Schwartz-Nobel

Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

Growing Up Empty

Growing Up Empty

Poisoned Nation

Poisoned Nation

The Journey

The Journey

Forsaking All Others

Forsaking All Others

Growing Up Empty

Growing Up Empty

Engaged to Murder

Engaged to Murder

Poisoned Nation

Poisoned Nation

Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

Starving in the Shadow of Plenty

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