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... American Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009); Jocelyn M. Johnston and Barbara S. Romzek, βThe Promises, Performance, and Pitfalls of Government Contracting,β in The Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy, ed.
The contributors to Paper Trails examine how these new developments change migrants' relationship to state, local, and foreign bureaucracies.
In the 1970s and 1980s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut...
Paper Trails is searing, heartbreaking, and irresistibly funny, sometimes all at once. As Pete Hamill says in his foreword, these essays "are as good as it ever gets."