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The View from Flyover Country

Dispatches from the Forgotten America

Sarah Kendzior

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English
Flatiron Books
08 May 2018
"St. Louis-based writer and expert in authoritarian states, Sarah Kendzior, has been called ""a political heavyweight"" and ""a Cassandra in Trumpland."" In 2015, she 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, racism, 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."

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Imprint:   Flatiron Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 18mm
Weight:   232g
ISBN:   9781250189998
ISBN 10:   1250189993
Pages:   256
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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

Reviews for The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

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 countr y, which provided fer tile 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 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 countr y, which provided fer tile 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 Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten parts of our countr y, which provided fer tile 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


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