Left Behind - Decline and Rage in Rural America

About the author

Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His many books include American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability, Small-Town America, and Remaking the Heartland (all Princeton).

Summary

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural AmericansWhat is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a dec

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"Thanks to Wuthnow’s rich observations, we are able to address and understand what truly confronts us as a nation: the triumph of mass society through mass politics in the name of the 'little guy.' Little did we know that such a person would also have the hands to match."---L. Benjamin Rolsky, Los Angeles Review of Books

Product details

• Authors: Robert Wuthnow
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780691177663
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17766-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Rural communities, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Politics and government