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Hillbilly Elegy

If Books Could Kill

CHAPTER

Barack Obama and the Rust Belt

CNN's John Sutter says the book tries to downplay race as a factor in why people don't like Obama. The president feels like an alien to many middletonians for reasons that have nothing to do with skin color, writes Sutter. "It's just like this weird excuse making to avoid the idea that race is a part of why people did not like Obama," he adds.

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