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High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
By: Ben Austen
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 02-13-18
Language: English
Publisher: HarperAudio

Publisher’s Summary

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary nonfiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project.

Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to 23 towers and a population of 20,000 - all of it packed onto just 70 acres a few blocks from Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource - it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.

In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America’s public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly though the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex’s demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation’s effort to provide affordable housing to the poor - and what we can learn from those mistakes.

©2018 Ben Austen (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

Critic Reviews
“Author Ben Austen and narrator Ron Butler create something special in this outstanding examination of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green housing projects. Butler captures the characters of residents, cops, housing officials, and others…. This is a fine, sympathetic portrait of a place and its people, both of which have long been overshadowed by myth and stereotype.” (AudioFile)

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01. Portrait of a Chicago Slum.mp3 25.07 MBs
02. The Reds and the Whites.mp3 28.92 MBs
03. Catch-as-Catch-Can.mp3 20.01 MBs
04. Warriors.mp3 25.82 MBs
05. The Mayor’s Pied-a-Terre.mp3 23.96 MBs
06. Cabrini-Green Rap.mp3 13.68 MBs
07. Concentration Effects.mp3 17.59 MBs
08. This Is My Life.mp3 14.95 MBs
09. Faith Brought Us This Far.mp3 17.42 MBs
10. How Horror Works.mp3 20.82 MBs
11. Dantrell Davis Way.mp3 31.16 MBs
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15. Old Town, New Town.mp3 25.68 MBs
16. They Came from the Projects.mp3 17.97 MBs
17. The People’s Public Housing Authority.mp3 17.76 MBs
18. The Chicago Neighborhood of the Future.mp3 17.94 MBs
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