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Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country

William Finnegan

"New Yorker" contributor William Finnegan offers a brilliant, empathetic report on an overlooked population--the young people who will be the next millennium's first adults, coming of age in an America of shrinking expectations.432 pp.

Journalism & ReportageJournalism & Reportage · medium confidenceJournalism & Reportage81 signalsLlm Classifier: Journalism & Reportage -> Journalism & ReportageTopic Classifier: Literary Biography -> BiographyKeyword Classifier: World History -> World HistoryLiterary BiographyFamily, Childhood & AdoptionMemoir & Personal History

Award History

0 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestMajor1998FinalistSecondary source
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