Author: Ben Austen File Type: epub Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicagos Cabrini-Green, Americas most iconic public housing project.Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicagos ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resourceit was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of Americas public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly though the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complexs demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nations effort to provide affordable housing to the poorand what we can learn from those mistakes.**ReviewBen Austens High-Risers is not merely the definitive history of the life and death of Americas most iconic housing project, but a clear-eyed assessment of what happened to public housing as a national ideal and why it happened. (David Simon, creator of The Wire) Ben Austen has emerged over the last five years as one of the most serious and thoughtful new American reporters. He writes with a deceptively smooth and borderline conversational style that keeps pages turning, but he has something rarer, too the patience to keep with a subject until it yields up unfamiliar questions. This book was years in the making and in some way his Austens whole life in the making. In it a neighborhood becomes a character, a protagonist, but the character has inside it real human beings. Austen convinced me that my understanding of what goes on inside the projects had been about as deep as a cop show. We need more books like this from him. (John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead ) [High-Risers] is a finely crafted biography of an urban community. (Library Journal Advance Review) ....a local history of profound national relevance... Austens fascinating narrative demands much consideration. (Booklist (starred review)) Provides many powerful insights... A weighty and robust history of a people disappeared from their own community. (Kirkus) From the Back CoverA remarkable work of journalistic and literary merit, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicagos Cabrini-Green, Americas most iconic public housing project.Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of twenty-thousandall of it packed onto just seventy acres situated a few blocks from Chicagos ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, though, it was also a much-needed resourceit was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, and the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of Americas public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told affectingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the complexs demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of indelible portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nations effort to provide affordable housing to the poorand what we can learn from those mistakes.

Author: Ronald E. Heine File Type: pdf This important study provides the first English translation of both the surviving fragments of Origens Commentary on Ephesians and of the complete text of Jeromes Commentary on Ephesians. The two translations are placed parallel to one another where they treat the same texts in Ephesians thus showing Jeromes extensive dependence on Origens commentary. By using collateral texts from other works of Origen, Jerome, and Rufinus, the author is able to show Jeromes dependence on Origen in numerous passages in his commentary where the Greek text of Origens commentary is lost. The translation is accompanied by Heines illuminating commentary and a substantial introduction sets the works in their historical context. The book makes a significant contribution not only to scholarship on Origen and Jerome, but also to the wider question of the interpretation of scripture in the early Christian centuries.