Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right

Strangers In Their Own Land: Anger And Mourning On The American Right

2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION A 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEWSDAY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016 One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election The 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 Trump When 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. ReviewPraise for Strangers in Their Own Land:2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION A 2016 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEWSDAY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2016 One of ?6 Books to Understand Trump?s Win? according to the New York Times the day after the election "[A] smart, respectful and compelling book." -Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review "[Hochschild?s] analysis is overdue at a time when questions of policy and legislation and even fact have all but vanished from the public discourse." -Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books "Hochschild moves beyond the truism that less affluent voters who support small government and tax cuts are voting against their own economic interest." -O Magazine "By far the best book by an outsider to the Tea Party I have ever encountered . . . a wonderful contribution to the national discourse. -Forbes "An entry pass to an alternative worldview, and with it a route map towards empathy." -The Economist "Remarkable. . . . Hochschild gives a rich and vivid picture of the emotional and social life . . . in the American South." -Sean McCann, The Los Angeles Review of Books "Hochschild comes to know people-and her own nation-better than they know themselves" -Heather Mallick, The Toronto Star "Up close there is a depth to the concerns of Hochschild's subjects . . . They are concerned about pollution, and about the social decay that we see most vividly in the opioid epidemic. They are aware . . . of facts on the ground." -Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker "Strangers in Their Own Land is extraordinary for its consistent empathy and the attention it pays to the emotional terrain of politics. It is billed as a book for this moment, but it will endure." -Gabriel Thompson, Newsday [Hochschild's] connection and kindness to the people she meets is what makes this book so powerful. -Marion Winik, Minneapolis Star Tribune "Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives . . . [She] conveys that she genuinely likes the people she meets, communicating their dignity and values . . . . These attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochschild'sStrangers in Their Own Land and a new elite." -Jedediah Purdy, The New Republic "The impo