The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America
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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America
By (Author) Robert Wuthnow
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
8th July 2019
2nd edition
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Politics and government
Civics and citizenship
307.760973
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Description
How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews
Reviews
Wuthnow has conducted one of the deepest, most intimate examinations of small-town life ever undertaken."David Shribman, Globe and Mail
Writing with empathy . . . the author reflects on the factors shaping rural lifefrom the importance of faith to the stability and familiarity of life in town to the importance of ritual events (barn dances, etc.), stories, and symbolsas well as pressing problems (brain drain, teen pregnancy, drugs, lack of good jobs) and concerns over moral decline (abortion and homosexuality). . . . A superb, authoritative sociology book.Kirkus Reviews
Thanks to Wuthnows 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
Author Bio
Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger 52 Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton University. His many books include Small-Town America and Remaking the Heartland (both Princeton).
