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The Forgotten

Ben Bradlee

An up-close look at the voters of Luzerne County Pennsylvania who decisively swung the state for Donald J. Trump examining the role of the President's base as the midterm elections loom

Luzerne County Pennsylvania as Ben Bradlee describes it is a microcosm of the nation. While it boasts its own police firemen schools and municipal services Luzerne has few urban centers and is fundamentally rural in character. And like so many of the 3000 other counties that resemble it across America Donald J. Trump won Luzerne County in 2016. But President Obama had carried Luzerne in both elections. What changed? And what does this mean for America?

The Forgotten tells this story revealing how Trump voters came to feel like strangers in their own land marginalized by flat or falling wages rapid demographic change and a liberal culture that mocks their faith and patriotism. As they explain it residents of Luzerne felt like others were 'cutting in line' and that the federal government was taking too much money from the employed and giving it to the idle. They felt a loss of breadwinner status and more importantly a loss of dignity.

Drawing an unforgettable portrait of Americans caught in a fraught political moment that doesn't seem to end The Forgotten not only expresses the growing divide between the two political parties but also the immense forces that powered the election of Donald Trump. America is changing and the men and women of The Forgotten are the ones who are changing it.

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  • Classification : Politics & Current Affairs
  • Pub Date : OCT 2, 2018
  • Imprint : Little, Brown
  • Page Extent : 304
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9780316515733
  • Price : INR 2,130
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Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee Jr. spent 25 years at the Boston Globe as a reporter and editor overseeing as deputy managing editor among many critically acclaimed stories the Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. He lives in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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