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The View from Flyover Country. Dispatches from the Forgotten America

Door Sarah Kendzior

Categorie
Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer
#269249
Titel
The View from Flyover Country. Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Auteur
Kendzior, Sarah
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Flatiron Books
Jaar van uitgave
2018
ISBN10
1250189993
ISBN13
9781250189998
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting

St. Louis-based writer and expert in authoritarian states, Sarah Kendzior, has been called a political heavyweight and a Cassandra in Trumpland. In 2015, she collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera and published them as The View from Flyover Country, which became an ebook bestseller and garnered praise from readers around the world. Now, The View from Flyover Country is being released in print with an updated introduction and epilogue that reflect on the ways that the Trump presidency was the certain result of the realities first captured in Kendzior's essays. A clear-eyed account of the realities of life in America's overlooked heartland, The View from Flyover Country is a piercing critique of the labor exploitation, racism, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the
... (Lees verder)post-employment economy that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat. The View from Flyover Country is necessary reading for anyone who believes that the only way for America to fix its problems is to first discuss them with honesty and compassion.
Pagina's
239
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 6,00

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