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

from rivkat

I got this from the library just before the election, then couldn't bear to read it for a while, then couldn't bear to review it for a while. Shortest version: the Louisiana Tea Party types Hochschild sensitively portrays are sick of being told that they're bad people if they don't care about peo...

from meredk

I was really taken with this book. Hochschild did an amazing job of getting at the roots of the dissatisfaction with government, Democrats, liberals, etc. etc., expressed by the Tea Party followers/Trump voters. She helped me to understand why these people vote against their own best interest, an...

from muddyboy

This is a fascinating account about the roots of the Tea Party and Trumpism and the rage that inspires it. The central thesis is that these people resent what they see as people cutting ahead of them in line getting to the American dream. To them the federal government spends a whole lot of time ...

from pamelad

Hochschild is a sociologist, an academic at Berkeley, and a liberal to the core. Alarmed at the increasing hostility between Democrats and Republicans, she immerses herself in a community of Tea Party supporters in Louisiana to try to understand the emotion that underlies their political beliefs,...

from Craig_Pratt

This book contributes an important perspective to the questions of political, spiritual and social class polarization in current US. The author's ability to become familiar with and trusted by interview subjects remarkable and key to the value that I derived from reading the book. I am unable to ...