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n nNEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER n nFrom the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trumps presidential victory.n nA collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize. -- Kirkusn nIn 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 Kendziors essays.n nA clear-eyed account of the realities of life in Americas 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.n nPlease put everything aside and try to get ahold of Sarah Kendziors collected essays, The View from Flyover Country. I have rarely come across writing that is as urgent and beautifully expressed. What makes Kendziors writing so truly important is that] it . . . documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there.--The Wiren nSarah Kendzior is as harsh and tenacious a critic of the Trump administration as youll find. She isnt 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 Tribunen
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