Stolen
Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
by Arlie
Russell Hochschild (Author)
In her first
book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book
Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to
Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's
appeals such resonance.
For all the
attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide,
we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens,
Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer
the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that
makes it feel "stolen"?
Hochschild's
research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within
the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation, where the
city was reeling: coal jobs had left, crushing poverty persisted, and a deadly
drug crisis struck the region. Although Pikeville was in the political center
thirty years ago, by 2016, 80 percent of the district's population voted for
Donald Trump. Her brilliant exploration of the town's response to a white
nationalist march in 2017 — a rehearsal for the deadly Unite the Right march
that would soon take place in Charlottesville, Virginia — takes us deep inside
a torn and suffering community.
Hochschild
focuses on a group swept up in the shifting political landscape: blue-collar
men. In small churches, hillside hollers, roadside diners, trailer parks, and
Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Hochschild introduces us to unforgettable people,
and offers an original lens through which to see them and the wider world. In
Stolen Pride, Hochschild incisively explores our dangerous times, even as she
also points a way forward.
"A
piercing . . . impressive and nuanced assessment of a critical factor in
American politics." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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