"The original Dorchester Days is a classic self-published edition chronicling life in Eugene Richards' hometown of Dorchester, Massachusetts, in the 1970s. Although all the photographs were taken within a few blocks of each other, the book represents a snapshot of small-town America in the 1970s, and as such has a much broader resonance. Racial tension, violence, poverty, and crime: it is a powerful portrait of a town and a nation in a state of transition and decline. The revised edition by Richards rearranges and expands upon the book of the original edition, addressing topics such as racism and the Ku Klux Klan in a way he didn't feel able to pursue at the time of the original publication."