Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Formidable and truth-dealing…necessary.” – The New York Times
“This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched
social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” –O Magazine
“A gritty and sprawling assault on…American mythmaking.”
—Washington Post
“An eloquent synthesis of the country’s history of class
stratification.” –The Boston Globe
“A bracing reminder of the persistent contempt for the white
underclass.” –The Atlantic
“[White Trash] sheds bright light on a long history of demagogic
national politicking, beginning with Jackson. It makes Donald Trump
seem far less unprecedented than today’s pundits
proclaim.”—Slate
“Isenberg . . . has written an important call for Americans to
treat class with the same care that they now treat race…Her work
may well help that focus lead to progress.” —TIME
“With her strong academic background and accessible voice, Isenberg
takes pains to reveal classism’s deep-seated roots.”–Entertainment
Weekly
“Carefully researched…deeply relevant.” –Christian Science Monitor
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