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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.

Main Author: Kendzior, Sarah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2018.
Edition: First Flatiron books edition.
Subjects:
Trump, Donald, > 1946-
American Dream.
United States > Politics and government > 21st century.
United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Essays.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Flyover country.
  • The view from flyover country ;
  • Expensive cities are killing creativity ;
  • The peril of hipster economics ;
  • Mourn the fall of the mall
  • Part II: The post-employment economy.
  • 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
  • Part III: Race and religion.
  • 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
  • Part IV: Higher education.
  • 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
  • Part V: Media.
  • 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
  • Part VI: Beyond flyover country.
  • 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.

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