A collection of penetrating essays about life in an America of dwindling opportunity - from the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump's presidential victory.
Sarah Kendzior is best known for her reporting on St. Louis, her coverage of the 2016 election, and her academic research on authoritarian states. She is currently an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail and she was named by Foreign Policy as one of the "100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events." Her reporting has been featured in many publications, including Politico, Slate, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune, Teen Vogue, and The New York Times. Visit her on twitter @sarahkendzior
An NPR Best Book of the Year 2018
"Both prescient and honest...seeing the roots of the arguments that
now dominate cable news is both fascinating and a little bit
haunting in retrospect." --NPR "Kendzior's prose is sharp and
consistent whether the essay is data dense or an opinion piece. She
maneuvers through big issues with a pace and clarity that makes
unpalatable topics fascinating, and unfortunately, relatable." --
Hyperallergic "The defining journalistic account of Trump's America
does complain, but it isn't best-selling gossip fodder like Michael
Wolff's Fire and Fury or James Comey's A Higher Loyalty. It's the
book from the Midwestern journalist who barely mentions the
president's name."
--Record-Eagle "Sharply written pieces about life and inequality in
middle America."
--Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 85 Books for Summer Reading An
academic, Midwesterner and firebrand, Kendzior crafts work that
looks unflinchingly at what ails the country." --Shelf Awareness,
starred review "It's a call to arms, highlighting the struggles of
disenfranchised, overworked, and underpaid Americans, and urging
our elected officials to recognize and address the inequalities
that have become even more pronounced since when she originally
wrote the essays." --The Village Voice "The View From Flyover
Country is well worth reading....Here is a thoughtful critic who
knows how to sound the alarm." --The Arts Fuse "Kendzior's essays
bring to light social injustice and economic inequality in Middle
America from a voice that lives there." --Medium "The talented
Kendzior...writes intelligently and with great empathy about
problems faced by the Midwest." --New York Post "Kendzior's
writing, while often concise and clever like this, is just as often
backed by statistics, attributions or an illustrative
profile...Though her message is alarming, it is softened with
compassion." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "An astonishment and a
challenge to convention for all sorts of reasons...[One of the]
books devoted to where we really were not very long ago, where we
are now and where we might well be going. They don't mess around.
They play rough. But then the truth almost always does." --Buffalo
News "From Russia to flyover country, Sarah Kendzior might be the
voice we need." -- Columbia Journalism Review "Hers is a
crystalline voice of reason and appraisal in a world that shifts
further into unrecognizable territory minute-by-minute." -- Carol
Haggas, Booklist "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 "Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior
gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten
parts of our country, which provided fertile ground for the rise of
Trump." --AMY SISKIND, AUTHOR OF THE LIST "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. Read her." --THE WIRE "Kendzior is no psychic. She's
just whip-smart and an expert on authoritarian governments. She's
also that rare writer with an analyst's brain and an empath's
heart... Though the essays are topical and political...one senses
they'll stand the test of time, just for the beauty of the prose
and the soundness of the philosophy." --STEFENE RUSSELL, ST. LOUIS
MAGAZINE
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