‘Tightrope’ argues for greater compassion and social responsibility
Jan 22, 2020
3 minutes
A quarter of the children that Nicholas Kristof rode the school bus with growing up in Yamhill, Oregon, in the 1960s and ’70s, are dead, their lives cut short by drug and alcohol addiction and suicide. He suggests a correlation between these so-called “deaths of despair” and the fact that life expectancy in the United States has declined for the last three years.
In “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” Kristof and co-author Sheryl WuDunn examine the crisis in working-class America by traveling to
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