It takes the average reader 6 hours to read Almost Home - America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community by David L. Kirp
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For David Kirp, a gifted storyteller and journalist, the concept of community stretches beyond a cliched figure of speech to describe what happens when people make decisions that reshape one another's lives. He has collected a fascinating variety of such stories from across America to re-create the immediate experience of community--tales that signify in their particulars, giving meaning to the much bandied-about idea of civic virtue. They paint a rich picture of how, for better and for worse, Americans live together. We meet two San Francisco families, one Nicaraguan and the other black,...
Almost Home - America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community by David L. Kirp is 360 pages long, and a total of 90,000 words.
This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read Almost Home - America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community aloud.
Almost Home - America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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