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, historical events, and policy discussions. The post When Power Suits and Padded Shoulders Ruled appeared first on .

