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The View from Flyover Country
- Dispatches from the Forgotten America
- Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
- Length: 6 hrs
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Summary
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
Critic reviews
“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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- 03-08-20
Harrowing set of essays which describe US society
I had read extensively in areas of political philosophy and studied US ideas about government and social policy, but nothing prepares the reader for the differences between UK and USA. This isn't discussed enough, but our government is rapidly moving in the same direction, although this move is quite contrary to our own history and social provision. It's also quite different from much of Europe, with whom we sometimes feel distant because of languages.
It scared the bejasus out of me, frankly. Even knowing the theory behind such social policies, I was unprepared for the cool descriptions of what this means in practice. These essays are a harrowing read & although the author is dispassionate, she pulls no punches.
Many societies are obviously strange to us. China and the Islamic countries appear and are quite alien, but we share so much cultural and linguistic tradition with the USA that it comes as a real shock to see how very different it is and the effects this has on people who are sick, old, disabled, poor or black. Prepare for a frightening review of what current policies will lead to in this country if we don't wake up and question the direction things are going soon.
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