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Alissa Quart is the executive editor of the journalism non-profit Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She co-founded its current incarnation with Barbara Ehrenreich. She is also the author of four previous acclaimed books, “Branded,’’ “Republic of Outsiders,’’ “Hothouse Kids’’ and the poetry book “Monetized.’’ She writes the Outclassed column for The Guardian and has published features and reported commentary in many magazines and newspapers, most recently for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation and The New York Review of Books. She has won the Columbia Journalism School’s 2018 Alumni Award and the LA Press Club Award for Commentary, was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a National ...more

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Average rating: 3.43 · 3,804 ratings · 635 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America 3.36 avg rating — 2,202 ratings — published 2018 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream 3.82 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 2023 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers 3.22 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 2003 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child 3.27 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2006 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels 3.22 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going for Broke: Living on the Edge in the World’s Richest Country by Alissa Quart (Editor), David Wallis (Editor) 3.65 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thoughts and Prayers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monetized 3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Saner Approach? 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ブランド中毒にされる子どもたち「一生の顧客」を作り出す企業の新戦略 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are in the world no such men as self-made men. The term implies an individual independence of the past and present which can never exist. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “SELF-MADE MEN”
― Alissa Quart, Bootstrapped: Exposing the Myth of the Self-Made and the Rugged Individualist, From “Little House” to Horatio Alger

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“Day care was intended from the start to be a weak system, as scholars of the history of childcare tell me, like a punishment for needing care because a woman didn’t have a husband or some other means of support.”
― Alissa Quart, Bootstrapped: Exposing the Myth of the Self-Made and the Rugged Individualist, From “Little House” to Horatio Alger

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“The more I researched Alger, the more I believed “bootstrapping” was a story line emerging out of the ashes of Alger’s own personal shame for his pedophilia and the trauma he inflicted on others. His life story morphed from his longing for young boys into the ultimate story of young boys’ exerting mastery over the adults and the world around them, perhaps his own identification with his powerless victims.”
― Alissa Quart, Bootstrapped: Exposing the Myth of the Self-Made and the Rugged Individualist, From “Little House” to Horatio Alger

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Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America's Public Lands

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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

Alissa Quart

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Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

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