[Worship] Liberals attempt to understand Trump voters.

Sun Apr 1 21:47:22 CDT 2018

I'd love a copy. Thanks for doing this.

Jane

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Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds,
Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.
But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people,
For they dream their dreams with open eyes
And make them come true.        D. H. Lawrence

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Subject: Re: [Worship] Liberals attempt to understand Trump voters.

The Today's Issues group this morning discussed a very good article from The Atlantic by Michael Gerson on this topic ("How Evangelicals Lost Their Way - And Got Hooked by Donald Trump").  Let me know if you it forwarded to you.

Steve M

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Peg Clifford via Worship <worship at fuusm.org<mailto:worship at fuusm.org>> wrote:

"There have been any number of books trying to explain to liberals the mindset of people who voted for President Trump. One of the very best of these is “Strangers in Their Own Land<http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=pMJKdIFVI6rKtFy4slVtDzAfwTk1NBGwJUs9WJHz1uW1fzJMVaaux9axLhemhsMmkWtB5JPJA8M=&campaign_id=45&instance_id=529&segment_id=615&user_id=ff496774bfcc98ca279cd3b383438eaa&regi_id=54077773>,” by Arlie Hochschild; I recently read it and really recommend it. Hochschild is a Berkeley sociologist who writes respectfully, even warmly, of the Louisiana voters she hung out with, and I think they will feel they have been fairly treated as she captures their frustrations, concerns and resentments."

Nicholas Kristoff New York TImes.

So I looked up the book.https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land

Strangers in Their Own Land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right

  *   Arlie Russell Hochschild<https://thenewpress.com/authors/arlie-russell-hochschild>

With a new afterword by the author and a new reading group guide

The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump

“A generous but disconcerting look at the Tea Party. . . . This is a smart, respectful and compelling book.” —Jason DeParle, The New York Times Book Review

Finalist, National Book Award 2016
One of “6 Books to Understand Trump’s Win” according to the New York Times the day after the election

When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned
to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding five years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, “Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild’s ‘strangers in their own land’ and a new elite.” Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called “humble and important” by David Brooks and “masterly” by Atul Gawande, Hochschild’s book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others.

The paperback edition will feature a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and will also include a readers’ group guide at the back of the book.

"...indifference to evil is worse than evil itself,
that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible. "

                               Abraham Joshua Heschel

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