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When Power Suits and Padded Shoulders Ruled

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When Power Suits and Padded Shoulders Ruled

As a college freshman in the fall of 1994, I read Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here in an introductory sociology course. For a week, I was over the moon. Here was a gripping story about good kids surviving a fearsome public-housing complex—a story that braided heartbreaking interviews, contemporary news, hist

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As a college freshman in the fall of 1994, I read Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here in an introductory sociology course. For a week, I was over the moon. Here was a gripping story about good kids surviving a fearsome public-housing complex—a story that braided heartbreaking interviews, contemporary news, hist

As a college freshman in the fall of 1994, I read Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here in an introductory sociology course.

Conservative Review reported the story as "When Power Suits and Padded Shoulders Ruled."

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