The view from flyover country dispatches from the forgotten America
Offers a collection of essays on the state of America, including how labor exploitation, racism, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of a post-employment economy have given rise to an autocrat leader.
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New York, NY :
Flatiron Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First Flatiron books edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kendzior, Sarah, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The view from flyover country : |b dispatches from the forgotten America / |c Sarah Kendzior. |
| 250 | |a First Flatiron books edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Flatiron Books, |c 2018. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2015 | |
| 300 | |a xv, 239 pages ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Collection of essays originally written between 2012 and 2014. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Part I: Flyover country. |t The view from flyover country ; |t Expensive cities are killing creativity ; |t The peril of hipster economics ; |t Mourn the fall of the mall -- |g Part II: The post-employment economy. |t Surviving the post-employment economy ; |t Meritocracy for sale ; |t Survival is not an aspiration ; |t Zero-opportunity employers ; |t A government shutdown, a social breakdown ; |t The men who set themselves free ; |t Charity is not a substitute for justice ; |t The unaffordable baby boomer dream ; |t The millennial parent ; |t Mothers are not "opting out"--they are out of options -- |g Part III: Race and religion. |t The wrong kind of caucasian ; |t The fallacy of the phrase "the Muslim world" ; |t In the trial of Trayvon, the U.S. is guilty ; |t St. Louis's sons, taken too soon ; |t The freedom to criticize free speech -- |g Part IV: Higher education. |t The closing of American academia ; |t Academic paywalls mean publish and perish ; |t The political consequences of academic paywalls ; |t The immorality of college admissions ; |t College is a promise the economy does not keep -- |g Part V: Media. |t Managed expectations in the post-employment economy ; |t Who is a "journalist"? People who can afford to be ; |t Blame it on the internet ; |t When the mainstream media are the lunatic fringe -- |g Part VI: Beyond flyover country. |t U.S. foreign policy's gender gap ; |t Snowden and the paranoid state ; |t Iraq and the reinvention of reality ; |t Where following the law is radical ; |t Water is a human right, but who is considered a human being? ; |t The telegenically dead -- |t Coda. In defense of complaining -- |t Epilogue. |
| 520 | |a Offers a collection of essays on the state of America, including how labor exploitation, racism, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of a post-employment economy have given rise to an autocrat leader. | ||
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| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Social conditions |y 21st century. | |
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