Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dale Maharidge talks with friend and fellow journalist Sarah Smarsh about his new book Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s. Maharidge has written about the American working class for decades, and the conversation ranges from the 1960s to the present exploring the intersections of poverty, technology, gender, and American self-image, including both raw first-hand experience and informed analysis in a bleak picture that yet offers a glimmer of hope. (Recorded January 12, 2021)
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