Despair And Indignation Among The American White Working Class - Arlie Hochschild
The Joe Walker Podcast
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The Rise of the Tea Party
When did you decide you needed to write this book? Take me back to that moment and what your thought process was. I'd written a number of books, a second shift, the time behind a global woman, all of which ended with a call for government activism. And so here was a movement trying to shoot all that down where the government wasn't a solution, it was a problem. One survey actually found that half of Louisiana citizens agreed with the tenants of the tea party.
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