_A__ __ _   .» t Richard A. Couto ’73 AS wrote ‘Ma/cmg Democracy Wor/e Betten Mecliat- . I
.   i`   '   ing Structures, Social CapitaL and the Democratic Prospect, " recently pub- . . · _
. · I"   1 — r  lished by the University of North Carolina Press. The book explores the
It .   yllv     "savage side" of market capitalism in Appalachia and the social, political,
Q   ·e_=     and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. Couto is . » T
A _       the Modlin Chair in Leadership Studies in the jepson School at the Univer- _ T
*     sity of Richmond. .
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Cynthia M. Duncan ’81, ’85 AS explores why I   · 4 .` _  
, S 4     some families stay mired in poverty, generation ·I ` Q `   I . `II » t
t   IF,  N    ·‘* after generation, and why some regions of the i · I ; I .   ` __ 3 I
*‘·'·’  1   [ ` country are chronically poor and depressed in I· . i `I . . `_ _` ‘ * _ j
E »    4- ” "WorlcLs Apart.- Why Poverty Perszsts in Rum! . . ._ · ~ _-   » . _   .  
E l‘ ,, I_· " · ·,. I America. " Her book gives voice to the rural I _. · I `_ V ,~   .  
‘   r   _ y cornmunity’s poor and struggling, the rich and     , ‘ _ ` _=   A  
D   I t · powerful and those in between as they candidly ._ I .g ` ` fI1I _= ~   __  
§ T  ! share their hopes, dreams and difficulties.   { I ‘   . Q       ,
j I I S . * .I.___-L,} Duncan has written numerous articles and reports ‘ , '_     . I f I, - {
l   =  '  ` ` on the subject of rural poverty. Duncan is cur- ` ` r ,` y     {n .
_ __,__ _   rently director of community and resource devel- _:`     “ ¢   j ‘ = r_ ,—» I; H
I ln l.   ‘·'A..,   Opment for the Ford Foundation in New York. _A? ‘ Y l` ,     I   , Y l
  ,/   . · She previously was associate professor of sociol— " . I I _‘ Z   _   L, { if f
·»   *=‘’   '"‘*'°'°"*'f"""'”'“"""""“ ogy at the University of New Hampshire. I ‘,*‘   ._