{"product_id":"white-trash-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-paperback","title":"White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNancy Isenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller, with a new preface from the author \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This estimable book rides into the summer doldrums like rural electrification. . . . It deals in the truths that matter.\"--Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This eye-opening investigation into our country's entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eWhite Trash\u003c\/i\u003e will change the way we think about our past and present.\"\u003cbr\u003e --T. J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eCuster's Trials \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, \u003cb\u003eco-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Problem of Democracy, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing--if occasionally entertaining--poor white trash. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there's always a chance that the dancing bear will win,\" says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as \"waste people,\" \"offals,\" \"rubbish,\" \"lazy lubbers,\" and \"crackers.\" By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called \"clay eaters\" and \"sandhillers,\" known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society--where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics--a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ's Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like \u003ci\u003eHere Comes Honey Boo Boo \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDuck Dynasty. \u003c\/i\u003eMarginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation's history. With Isenberg's landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNancy Isenberg is the author of \u003ci\u003eFallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of \u003ci\u003eMadison and Jefferson\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter \u0026amp; Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 04, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978818781485,"sku":"9780143129677","price":20.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/MkgxeXhUNGVNajZGNy8reXBoQ3NxZz09.webp?v=1775810476","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/white-trash-the-400-year-untold-history-of-class-in-america-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}