''Children of Crisis'' is a social study of children in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...

written by

child psychiatrist Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. It investigates the biopsychosocial fact ...

Robert Coles and published in five volumes by

Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emily ...

between 1967 and 1977. In 2003, the publisher released a one-volume compilation of selections from the series with a new introduction by the author. Volumes 2 and 3 shared (with Frances FitzGerald's '' Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam'') the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

Volumes

*Volume 1: ''A Study of Courage and Fear'' (1967) *Volume 2:
Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers
' (1971) *Volume 3:
The South Goes North
' (1971) *Volume 4: ''Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians'' (1977) *Volume 5: ''Privileged Ones: The Well-Off and the Rich in America'' (1977)

References

Child and adolescent psychiatry History books about the United States Little, Brown and Company books Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction-winning works Academic works about pediatrics {{psych-book-stub