Abiding Hunger: An American Paradox

A thorough and urgent examination of America’s oldest, most enduring contradiction: hunger in the land of abundance.

Throughout his time as foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Roger Thurow covered humanitarian stories from all over the world, including famine in Ethiopia and the devastating impacts of international food crises. It was generally accepted that hunger was a problem outside of America—something that happened “over there.” But after Hurricane Katrina exposed the po...