The view from flyover country : dispatches from the forgotten America /
Sarah Kendzior.
- xv, 239 pages
Collection of essays originally written between 2012 and 2014, published as an ebook in 2015 by Amazon Digital Services.
Introduction -- 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 is not for sale -- Survival is not an aspiration -- Zero-opportunity employers -- A government shutdown, a social breakdown -- The men who set themselves on fire -- 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' 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 -- Academia's indentured servants -- 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 -- Acknowledgements.
In 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera and published them as The View from Flyover Country, which became an ebook bestseller and garnered praise from readers around the world. Now, The View from Flyover Country is being released in print with an updated introduction and epilogue that reflect on the ways that the Trump presidency was the certain result of the realities first captured in Kendzior’s essays.
A clear-eyed account of the realities of life in America’s overlooked heartland, The View from Flyover Country is a piercing critique of the labor exploitation, race relations, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the post-employment economy that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat. The View from Flyover Country is necessary reading for anyone who believes that the only way for America to fix its problems is to first discuss them with honesty and compassion. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250189998
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