The Forgotten by Ben Bradlee

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epub | 12.41 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0316515736 | Author: Ben Bradlee | Year: 2018

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Named one of the "juiciest political books to come in 2018" by Entertainment Weekly

An up-close look at the voters of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania who decisively swung the state for Donald J. Trump, examining the role of the President's base as the midterm elections loom
Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in both elections. What changed? And what does this mean for America?

The Forgotten tells this story, revealing how Trump voters came to feel like strangers in their own land, marginalized by flat or falling wages, rapid demographic change, and a...

Category:Rural Sociology, Campaigns & Elections, Sociology of Rural Areas

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