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georgiaobrien 's review for:
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Listened to this on Audiobook and forgot to rate. Excellent read, but not for the reasons you might think.
While this might be billed as a book to explain the Tea Party or Trump, what I actually found most engaging was the exploration of the petrochemical industry and its effect on rural Louisiana. While I know that I should be interested in the environment, it’s not usually the issue that motivates me or gets me fired up. This broke open the issue for me, and showed how devastating environmental damage can be to a people and a culture.
The author has a lovely style, and her choice of interviewees was always enlightening and never cloying. I would have been interested to see more non-white people interviewed, although I understand that’s fairly difficult given the premise of the book.
While this might be billed as a book to explain the Tea Party or Trump, what I actually found most engaging was the exploration of the petrochemical industry and its effect on rural Louisiana. While I know that I should be interested in the environment, it’s not usually the issue that motivates me or gets me fired up. This broke open the issue for me, and showed how devastating environmental damage can be to a people and a culture.
The author has a lovely style, and her choice of interviewees was always enlightening and never cloying. I would have been interested to see more non-white people interviewed, although I understand that’s fairly difficult given the premise of the book.