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The Gilded Rage - A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America (Hardcover)
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2016 continues to be the most surreal and unpredictable election
year in recent memory and this is due in large part to one Donald
J. Trump and the millions of Americans who made him this year's
Republican nominee for president. As Trump continues to succeed
despite behavior that would cripple any other politician, whether
it is questioning the patriotism of the Gold Star Khan family or
banishing a baby from one of his press conferences, it is
imperative to understand why so many continue to support him. And
this is what makes The Gilded Rage so important; it provides
insight into the forgotten Americans that continue to befuddle
pundits and "experts" on CNN and FOX alike. This grippingly
intimate and heart-breaking book provides a portrait of the walking
wounded who make up the base of the Trump movement. Desperate and
angry, these are the Americans of the vanishing industrial
heartland, depressed Appalachian coal country, and the no-man's
land along the Southwestern border. These are coal miners, out of
work construction workers, and small business owners, who have
watched their fortunes dwindle with each passing year. They have no
illusions about the grandstanding billionaire and his glaring
flaws. But these men and women feel forgotten and screwed over by
political, corporate and media elites...and they feel that Donald
Trump, despite his flamboyant demagoguery, might well be their last
chance for salvation. Reminiscent of Studs Terkel's Working, with a
dash of Hunter S. Thompson, Alexander Zaitchik in this important
book takes us deeper into the ravaged soul of America than any
other chronicler of our times. Selected as one of Publishers
Weekly's Top Ten picks for Politics & Current Events of Fall
2016 Praise for Alexander Zaitchik's Common Sense: Glenn Beck and
the Triumph of Ignorance: "A sharp and informative smackdown. For
Zaitchik, [Glenn] Beck is just one more American con artist in the
P.T. Barnum tradition, a shameless pseudoconservative bottom-feeder
who will say anything to keep the spotlight on himself while the
money rolls in." -Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books "A
sensational book... This is a beautifully written and insightful
biography-thoughtful, considered, and very intentional about the
need to understand Beck both as a symbol of something larger going
on in America and as a person." -Susan Gardner, Daily Kos "A
scathing profile that follows the powerful pundit from a
single-parent home in rural Washington state to conservative
superstardom." -The Boston Globe "A great political book. Zaitchik
tells [Beck's story] well and nobody has told it more soberly."
-Slate "An informative study." -Sean Wilentz, The New Yorker "A
gripping and thoroughly researched biography." -Joe Conason, Salon
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