Review of Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country

Review of Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Countr

Review of the Book Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History

Review of the book Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New Histor

Review of the Book: Beginnings, Middles, & Ends

The book Beginnings, Middles, & Ends by Ogden W. Rogers provides a 100 story reflective understanding of social work. The book is divided into the three major sections; the powerful and mysterious beginnings; the hard work and confusion of the middles; and the sadness and surprise of the endings. Dr. Kindle suggests that the text must be mixed with the readers’ own insights and experiences to form meaning. He recommends this book without reservation while claiming it is an exceptional model of reflective social work practice which will leave the reader committed to deeper levels of self-reflection in their practice

Review of the Book Rural Poverty in the United States

Review of the book Rural Poverty in the United State

Book Review: Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvests

Book Review (Submitted by Peter A. Kindle) - Survival of Rural America: Small Victories and Bitter Harvest

Answering the Critics: The Inherent Value of Social Work

Birthed in the squalor and hardship of the late 19th century ethnic slums of Chicago and New York, social work has struggled since its inception. This struggle has been on two fronts: first, social work has struggled to make a difference in the lives of the destitute; and secondly, social work has struggled to develop a self-confident professional identity. Nearly a century since Abraham Flexner’s denial (1915) of professional status to social work, these struggles have yet to be clearly resolved

Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don\u27t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America

Review of Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America, by Jennifer Sherma

Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas, Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

Review of Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America, by Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefala

Book Review: The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century

Book Review: Julianne Couch 2016 Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press 233 pages Paperback: $35.0