Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

ISBN: 1620973499

Author: Russell Hochschild, Arlie

Condition: New

2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTIONA 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEWSDAY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEARA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the electionThe National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald TrumpWhen Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, ?Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild?s ?strangers in their own land? and a new elite.? Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called ?humble and important? by David Brooks, Hochschild?s book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others.The paperback edition will feature a new introduction by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and will also include a readers? group guide in the back of the book.