The forgotten : how the people of one Pennsylvania county elected Donald Trump and changed America

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Label

The forgotten : how the people of one Pennsylvania county elected Donald Trump and changed America

Title remainder

how the people of one Pennsylvania county elected Donald Trump and changed America

Statement of responsibility

Ben Bradlee Jr

Creator

• Bradlee, Ben, Jr

Author

• Bradlee, Ben, Jr

Subject

• Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• Pennsylvania -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• Political culture
• Political culture -- United States
• Politics and government
• 2000-2099
• Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
• Social values
• Social values -- United States
• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• Trump, Donald, 1946-
• United States
• Presidents -- Election
• Economic history

Language

eng

Summary

"Luzerne County Pennsylvania, as Ben Bradlee describes it, is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police, firemen, schools and municipal services, Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3,000 other counties that resemble it across America, Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in both elections. What changed? And what does this mean for America? / The Forgotten tells this story, revealing how Trump voters came to feel like strangers in their own land, marginalized by flat or falling wages, rapid demographic change, and a liberal culture that mocks their faith and patriotism. As they explain it, residents of Luzerne felt like others were 'cutting in line' and that the federal government was taking too much money from the employed and giving it to the idle. They felt a loss of breadwinner status, and more importantly, a loss of dignity." -- provided by publisher

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

324.973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

• HC107.P4
• JK526 2016

LC item number

• B73 2018
• .B7293 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography