Scratch beginnings: me, $25, and the search for the american dream - adam w. shepard

Shepard offers a compelling and inspiring work of investigative journalism in which the author, in a sort of anti-Nickel and Dimed experiment, sets out to see if someone who starts with nothing can still achieve the American Dream.

DONT believe the naysayers.

The American Dream--the fable that says if you work hard and follow the rules, youll make it--is alive and well.

-- New York Post Adam W.

Shepards Scratch Beginnings is the fascinating and eye-opening account of the grand social experiment the author undertook in response to Barbara Ehrenreichs Nickel and Dimed.

Subtitled Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, Scratch Beginnings chronicles Shepards successful efforts to raise himself up from self-imposed rock bottom in one years time--a personal odyssey that is sure to inspire anyone who reads about it, instilling new faith in the solid principles on which our democracy was built.