Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises [Original retail ed.] 1250220637, 978-1250220639

A galvanizing, narrative account of a city's bankruptcy and its aftermath told through the lives of seven valiantly

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Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises [Original retail ed.]
1250220637, 978-1250220639

Commentary
"What Broke really tells us is how systems of government, law and finance can crush even the hardiest of boot-strap pullers." —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House

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My father-in-law Kurt Heppenheimer came to America as a German Jewish refugee in 1937, changed his name to Curtis Heppen

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