Topping barackobama's summer reading list is Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America," a landmark book drawing on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans knowingly and unknowingly keep poor people poor. We are very proud to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author and sociologist Matthew Desmond to our Ten Evenings lecture series this October. Virtual tickets are now available! ➡️ pghartslectures 🔗 Elegantly written and fiercely argued, this compassionate book gives us new ways of thinking about a morally urgent problem. It also helps us imagine solutions. Desmond builds a startlingly original and ambitious case for ending poverty. He calls on us all to become poverty abolitionists, engaged in a politics of collective belonging to usher in a new age of shared prosperity and, at last, true freedom. #MatthewDesmond #PovertyByAmerica #Bookish #BookLove #Bookstagram #TBR #TBRlist #CurrentlyReading #ReadersOfInstagram #AuthorsOfInstagram #ThingsToDoInPitt...