Right after college, Adam Shepard boarded a train with only $25. In his book Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream, he writes about spending a year as a day laborer and ...

How’s this for a crazy idea: a guy moves to a randomly selected city with $25 and plans to have a place to live, a car, and $2,500 in the bank—all within one year. Adam Shepard performed this exact ...

In the middle of Adam Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings, we learn that he’s frustrated with not being able to find a job that pays more than $6.50 an hour, that down-and-out men living at Crisis Ministries ...

“Scratch Beginnings: Me, $25, and the Search for the American Dream,” by Adam Shepard. SB Press. 235 pp. $13.95. Is the American Dream still alive? Can one man pull himself out of poverty through hard ...