2016 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of ?6 Books to Understand Trumps Win according to the New York Times the day after the election

?This is a smart respectful and compelling book.
?The New York Times Book Review

?Satisfying... [Hochschilds] analysis is overdue at a time when questions of policy and legislation and even fact have all but vanished from the public discourse.
?The New York Review of Books

?Hochschild moves beyond the truism that less affluent voters who support small government and tax cuts are voting against their own economic interest.
?O Magazine

In Strangers in Their Own Land the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley California deep into Louisiana bayou country?a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets?among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident?people whose concerns are actu