Sarah Kendzior

The View from Flyover Country (eBook, ePUB)

Dispatches from the Forgotten America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER

From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory.

"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." - Kirkus

In 2015, Sarah Kendzior 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, race relations, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the 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.

"Please put everything aside and try to get ahold of Sarah Kendzior's collected essays, The View from Flyover Country. I have rarely come across writing that is as urgent and beautifully expressed. What makes Kendzior's writing so truly important is [that] it . . . documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there."-The Wire

"Sarah Kendzior is as harsh and tenacious a critic of the Trump administration as you'll find. She isn't some new kid on the political block or a controversy machine. . . .Rather she is a widely published journalist and anthropologist who has spent much of her life studying authoritarianism." -Columbia Tribune

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flatiron Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250189981
• Artikelnr.: 49746534

Autorenporträt

Sarah Kendzior is the bestselling author of The View from Flyover Country, Hiding in Plain Sight, and They Knew. She lives with her husband and children in St. Louis, Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Audacity of Despair
PART I: FLYOVER COUNTRY
The View from Flyover Country
Expensive Cities Are Killing Creativity
The Peril of Hipster Economics
Mourn the Fall of the Mall
PART II: THE POST-EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY
Surviving the Post-Employment Economy
Meritocracy for Sale
Survival Is Not an Option
Zero-Opportunity Employers
A Government Shutdown, a Social Breakdown
The Men Who Set Themselves on Fire
Charity Is Not a Substitute for Justice
The Unaffordable Baby Boomer Doom
The Millennial Parent
Mothers Are Not "Opting Out"--They Are Out of Options
PART III: RACE AND RELIGION
The Wrong Kind of Caucasian
The Fallacy of the Phrase "the Muslim World"
In the Trial of Trayvon, the U.S. Is Guilty
St. Louis's Sons, Taken Too Soon
The Freedom to Criticize Free Speech
PART IV: HIGHER EDUCATION
The Closing of American Academia
Academic Paywalls Mean Publish and Perish
Academia's Indentured Servants
The Political Consequences of Academic Paywalls
The Immorality of College Admissions
College Is a Promise the Economy Does Not Keep
PART V: MEDIA
Managed Expectations in the Post-Employment Economy
Who Is a "Journalist"? People Who Can Afford to Be
Blame It on the Internet
When the Mainstream Media Are the Lunatic Fringe
PART VI: BEYOND FLYOVER COUNTRY
U.S. Foreign Policy's Gender Gap
Snowden and the Paranoid State
Iraq and the Reinvention of Reality
Where Following the Law is Radical
Water is a Human Right, But Who is Considered a Human Being?
The Telegenically Dead
CODA
In Defense of Complaining
Epilogue