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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
Audiobook6 hours

The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America

Written by Sarah Kendzior

Narrated by Sarah Kendzior

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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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

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 24, 2018
ISBN9781427299789
Author

Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior is the New York Times bestselling author of Hiding in Plain Sight and The View from Flyover Country. She has a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched propaganda and state crimes in authoritarian regimes. She is the co-host of the acclaimed podcast Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and 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 NBC News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune, TeenVogue, The Globe and Mail, and The New York Times. She lives in St. Louis.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Astounding and important. Sarah Kendzior is a writer to follow.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Depressing. Very sad depiction of inequality here in America and around the world.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Very telling with many poignant perspectives on how Americans’ discontent dovetails with others’.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What can I say? It feels dissonant to be giving 5 stars to one of the most shocking works I've experienced in recent memory, but Kendzior deserves this praise and then some, not just for her work but for her narration as well.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    insightful and thought provoking.
    gives new perspective to coast dwellers.