Sasha Abramsky

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Sasha Abramsky (born 1972 ) is a British political journalist and author who lives in the United States.

Life

Sasha Abramsky grew up in London . He studied political science, philosophy and economics at Balliol College , Oxford . After completing his BA , he moved to New York City in 1993 and studied at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism . In 2003 he moved from the east coast to the west coast of California and has lived in Sacramento with his wife and two children ever since .

Abramsky writings cover US social policy. Magazine articles appear in The Nation , among others . He teaches writing at the University of California, Davis . He is a grandson of the British Marxist Chimen Abramsky (1916-2010), about whom he and his wife wrote the book The House of Twenty Thousand Books .

Fonts (selection)

  • Hard time blues . New York: St. Martins Press, 2002
  • with Jamie Fellner: Ill-equipped: US prisons and offenders with mental illness. New York: Human Rights Watch, 2003
  • Conned: How millions went to prison, lost the vote, and helped send George W. Bush to the White House . New York: New Press 2006
  • American furies: Crime, punishment, and vengeance in the age of mass imprisonment . Boston: Beacon Press, 2007
  • Inside Obama's brain . New York: Portfolio, 2009
    • Obama's little white paper. Fascinating insights into President Obama's leadership style . Moritz Malsch. Munich: FinanzBook-Verlag, 2010
  • Breadline USA: The hidden scandal of American hunger and how to fix . Sausalito, CA: PoliPointPress 2009
  • The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives . New York, NY: Nation Books, 2013
  • Voices of Poverty: A Narrative of America's Poor .
  • The House of Twenty Thousand Books . London: Halban 2014, ISBN 9781905559640 .

literature

  • Contemporary authors . Volume 269, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sasha Abramsky , bio on the website
  2. ^ Rebecca Abrams : Marx in the margins , in: Financial Times , July 19, 2014, p. 10
personal data
SURNAME Abramsky, Sasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British political journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972