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art3mis9's review
2.0
Boring. I read half and stopped. Some of it was interesting but I’m just not in the right place to listen to a book filled with SAT words right now. I guess I would be more interested in the 100 year or 150 year history of white trash.
teokajlibroj's review
3.0
Could have been better. This isn't really a book about the white working class, instead it's mainly about how rich elites have looked down their noses at the poor. Unfortunately we only see the poor through the eyes of the snobs, we never learn what they were really like.
Also the author has a habit of rambling off on unrelated tangents.
Also the author has a habit of rambling off on unrelated tangents.
kcrouth's review against another edition
4.0
Well . . . this is one of the more disturbing books i've read in a while. It is disturbing because it is well documented U.S. history and i don't like what it says about us as a people and as a nation. The romantic image of our founders and their founding philosophy that we have come to believe in and aspire to is largely myth and political spin. This book details the role that class and privilege (and lack thereof) has affected and shaped all the people of the U.S. over the last 400 years. It also examines how class and privilege have been used to define policy and laws, and maintain control and power over those without. Be ready for a lot of eye-opening documented historical facts that lower the bar of who we as a nation are, and what motivates and drives us. This give great clarity to the M.A.G.A. mantra being flung around by neo-cons in the 21st century. Knowing the facts behind the role class has played over our history as a colony and nation sheds frightening light on what "great again" really means to the privileged powers that be.
crazylady_usmc's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
blaineduncan's review
2.0
While the later half of the work picks up steam coming off of WWII and the examination of contemporary years, the rest of the book--and too much of the back half--is a big, long slog to read. Sadly, most of it never fulfills the promise of entertainment offered at the beginning of each chapter.
I did find the information insightful and informative but presented in a dull writing style; it is impressive how much research went into the work.
I did find the information insightful and informative but presented in a dull writing style; it is impressive how much research went into the work.
graveyardpansy's review
2.0
meh, at best. it’s quite repetitive without any actual analysis or critique, it underplays the impact of intersectionality, and overall neglects large general trends while focusing more on anecdotes and quotes. i crave any sort of analysis of cause and effect, claims on why and how this class structure exists and has been maintained. this book didn’t provide that. on top of that, it isn’t very well organized, and there’s no character or personality in the writing style, so it fails as both a more personable history and as a more analytic, factual one. oh and damn does the author REALLY have to use so many slurs??
ridanwise's review
5.0
Can't deny that part of me feels most of the merit goes to how the author managed to write a 400 plus pages book about class discrepancy while avoiding mentioning daddy Karls once.