The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America /
Kendzior, Sarah,
The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America / Sarah Kendzior. - First Flatiron books edition. - xv, 239 pages ; 21 cm.
Collection of essays originally written between 2012 and 2014.
The view from flyover country ; Expensive cities are killing creativity ; The peril of hipster economics ; Mourn the fall of the mall -- Surviving the post-employment economy ; Meritocracy for sale ; Survival is not an aspiration ; Zero-opportunity employers ; A government shutdown, a social breakdown ; The men who set themselves free ; Charity is not a substitute for justice ; The unaffordable baby boomer dream ; The millennial parent ; Mothers are not "opting out"--they are out of options -- The wrong kind of caucasian ; The fallacy of the phrase "the Muslim world" ; In the trial of Trayvon, the U.S. is guilty ; St. Louis's sons, taken too soon ; The freedom to criticize free speech -- The closing of American academia ; Academic paywalls mean publish and perish ; The political consequences of academic paywalls ; The immorality of college admissions ; College is a promise the economy does not keep -- Managed expectations in the post-employment economy ; Who is a "journalist"? People who can afford to be ; Blame it on the internet ; When the mainstream media are the lunatic fringe -- U.S. foreign policy's gender gap ; Snowden and the paranoid state ; Iraq and the reinvention of reality ; Where following the law is radical ; Water is a human right, but who is considered a human being? ; The telegenically dead -- Coda. In defense of complaining -- Epilogue. Part I: Flyover country. Part II: The post-employment economy. Part III: Race and religion. Part IV: Higher education. Part V: Media. Part VI: Beyond flyover country.
"In 2015, lauded journalist Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera and published them as the bestselling book The View from Flyover Country. Now, for the first time ever, The View from Flyover Country is in print with an updated introduction and epilogue that reflect on how the Trump presidency was the inevitable result of the realities first captured in Kendzior's writing. A piercing critique of labor exploitation, race relations, media bias, and other aspects of America's post-employment economy that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat, The View from Flyover Country is essential reading for anyone who believes that the only way for America to solve its problems is to discuss them with compassion and honesty."--Back cover.
9781250189998 1250189993
2017049753
Trump, Donald, 1946-
American Dream.
United States--Politics and government--21st century.
United States--Social conditions--21st century.
JK275 / .K45 2018
The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America / Sarah Kendzior. - First Flatiron books edition. - xv, 239 pages ; 21 cm.
Collection of essays originally written between 2012 and 2014.
The view from flyover country ; Expensive cities are killing creativity ; The peril of hipster economics ; Mourn the fall of the mall -- Surviving the post-employment economy ; Meritocracy for sale ; Survival is not an aspiration ; Zero-opportunity employers ; A government shutdown, a social breakdown ; The men who set themselves free ; Charity is not a substitute for justice ; The unaffordable baby boomer dream ; The millennial parent ; Mothers are not "opting out"--they are out of options -- The wrong kind of caucasian ; The fallacy of the phrase "the Muslim world" ; In the trial of Trayvon, the U.S. is guilty ; St. Louis's sons, taken too soon ; The freedom to criticize free speech -- The closing of American academia ; Academic paywalls mean publish and perish ; The political consequences of academic paywalls ; The immorality of college admissions ; College is a promise the economy does not keep -- Managed expectations in the post-employment economy ; Who is a "journalist"? People who can afford to be ; Blame it on the internet ; When the mainstream media are the lunatic fringe -- U.S. foreign policy's gender gap ; Snowden and the paranoid state ; Iraq and the reinvention of reality ; Where following the law is radical ; Water is a human right, but who is considered a human being? ; The telegenically dead -- Coda. In defense of complaining -- Epilogue. Part I: Flyover country. Part II: The post-employment economy. Part III: Race and religion. Part IV: Higher education. Part V: Media. Part VI: Beyond flyover country.
"In 2015, lauded journalist Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera and published them as the bestselling book The View from Flyover Country. Now, for the first time ever, The View from Flyover Country is in print with an updated introduction and epilogue that reflect on how the Trump presidency was the inevitable result of the realities first captured in Kendzior's writing. A piercing critique of labor exploitation, race relations, media bias, and other aspects of America's post-employment economy that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat, The View from Flyover Country is essential reading for anyone who believes that the only way for America to solve its problems is to discuss them with compassion and honesty."--Back cover.
9781250189998 1250189993
2017049753
Trump, Donald, 1946-
American Dream.
United States--Politics and government--21st century.
United States--Social conditions--21st century.
JK275 / .K45 2018