Contact – The Wright Stuff

Contact me at info@jameswright.online or get in touch via LinkedIn.

For information about earlier books not discussed on this website, please visit my Amazon Author’s Page.

Hunger in the Land of Plenty

“Food insecurity” and related issues are now on the national political agenda, but much of the literature (for example, that dealing with “food deserts” or the benefits of SNAP participation) is little more than wishful thinking. Our book clears away a lot of the underbrush in the literature so the principal features of the policy landscape stand out more clearly. Read More about “Hunger in the Land of Plenty: A Critical Look at Food Insecurity”…

Fun Florida Factoids

Florida’s first state flag bore the legend, “Let us Alone.”
“Every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don’t know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.” — Carl Hiaasen
The Cuban sandwich is not native to Cuba. The ham and pork delectation was invented in Ybor City, now a Tampa suburb and the original home of the American cigar-rolling industry.
Surf-line Magazine describes Volusia County, FL, as the “sharkiest place on earth.” The county has recorded as many as three shark bites in a single day.

All this and much more in A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State.

Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science

In 1946, the British poet W. H. Auden wrote a poem titled “Under Which Lyre,” in which he penned the Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not sit with statisticians, nor commit a social science.” Social Problems, Social Issues, Social Science is a chronicle of a life spent more or less exclusively sitting with statisticians and committing social science – that is, my life, recounted as a narrative spun through the papers, reviews and polemics I published in Society magazine between 1972 and my retirement.