LeDuff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Detroit, didn’t predict the Trump presidency, but already in 2013 he sensed the country was at a breaking point. To document this, he set out on a cross-country tour that took him from the Fox offices in New York to a U.S.-Mexico border crossing, with stops in Flint, Ferguson, the North Dakota oil fields, tense communities in South Chicago, and many flash points along the Sun Belt. What LeDuff found was indeed a nation in crisis, and he pulls no punches in this detailed and blistering report of people’s anger about racial violence, stagnant wages, and the rising costs of housing and healthcare, as well as their frustration with politicians.
The speaker was introduced by Bill Leggett, from Politics and Prose.
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