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The Other War

Photographs by Eugene Richards



Pictured:
Sgt. Patrick Campbell
Sgt. John Bruhns
Staff Sgt. Camilo Mejia
Spc. Philip Chrystal
Sgt. Dustin Flatt
Spc. Michael Harmon

Eugene Richards, a fellow at The Nation Institute, is an award-winning magazine photographer and writer. He has authored books on poverty in America, emergency medicine, women's breast cancer, and the war on drugs. His most recent book is The Fat Baby.

This article forms the basis of Collateral Damage, forthcoming from Nation Books.



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Working In The Shadows

A Year of Doing the Jobs Americans Won't Do

By Gabriel Thompson

What is it like to do the back-breaking work of immigrants? To find out, Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside Latino immigrants who initially thought he was either crazy or an undercover immigration agent. Combining personal narrative with investigative reporting, Thompson shines a bright light on the underside of the American economy, exposing harsh working conditions, union busting and lax government enforcement—while telling the stories of workers, undocumented immigrants and desperate U.S. citizens alike, forced to live with chronic back pain in the pursuit of $8 an hour.

Watch Thompson on C-SPAN's Book TV on March 20-21. More


El Monstruo: Book Tour

February 11 - April 13 | Across the United States
Get your copy of El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City signed by Nation Books author John Ross, who is traveling across the United States on a mammoth book tour spanning three months and 20 cities. Click here to see if he's coming to a city near you.

February 11 - May 14
Photo Exhibit by Eugene Richards
(Gage Gallery, Roosevelt University, 18 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL)
Institute Fellow and award-winning photographer Eugene Richards is showing his work, A Procession of Them, at Roosevelt University's Gage Gallery from February 11 through May 14. The exhibit features troubling black-and-white images of mentally ill and mentally disabled patients who are warehoused in deplorable conditions in psychiatric institutions around the world. MORE

March 14 - 15
Nichols and McChesney on C-SPAN's Book TV
(C-SPAN)
Watch Nation Books authors John Nichols and Robert McChesney as they discuss their latest book, The Death and Life of American Journalism on C-SPAN's Book TV on Saturday, March 14 at 8 a.m. and on Sunday, March 15 at 1 a.m. For more information, please click here. MORE

March 20 - 21
Gabriel Thompson on C-SPAN's Book TV
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Watch Gabriel Thompson, Nation Books author of Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs Most Americans Won't Do on C-SPAN's Book TV on March 20-21. MORE


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