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6.25 × 9.5 SPINE: 1.1875 PRAISE FOR STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND Current Affairs & Politics $27.95 U.S. T BESTSE LLING AUTHO R O F THE SECOND SHIFT “if the great political question of our time can be summarized in the two words, HEIR OWN LAND ‘donald trump,’ the answer is to be found in arlie russell hochschild’s brilliant new book. STRANGER N STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND, hochschild, an eminent sociologist with a novelist’s storytelling skill, has crafted an absorbing the renowned sociologist Arlie Russell tale full of richly drawn, complicated characters who come bearing their own fascinating histories. ARLIE RUSSELL Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking Together they offer a compelling and lucid portrait of what had seemed a bewildering political I journey, traveling from her liberal hometown of moment. a powerful, imaginative, necessary book, arriving not a moment too soon.” Berkeley, California, deep into arch-conservative —Mark danner, author of Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War Louisiana bayou country—an area in environmental HOCHSCHILD crisis, where many people suffer from poor health “arlie russell hochschild journeys into a far different world than her liberal academic and widespread poverty, enduring rates of edu- enclave of Berkeley, into the heartland of the nation’s political right, in order to understand cation and life expectancy that are among the how the conservative white working class sees America. With compassion and empathy, country’s lowest. Her mission is to do what so she discovers the narrative that gives meaning and expression to their lives—and few of us are able to do: truly listen to the other which explains their political convictions, along with much else.
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