by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR NONFICTION A NEWSDAY TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR One of "6 Books to Understand Trump's Win" according to the New York Times the day after the election The National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump "Arlie Hochschild journeys into a far different world than her liberal academic enclave of Berkeley, into the heartland of the nation's political right, in order to understand how the conservative white working class sees America. With compassion and empathy, she discovers the narrative that gives meaning and expression to their lives–and which explains their political convictions, along with much else. Anyone who wants to understand modern America should read this captivating book." - Robert B. Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley "Hochschild moves beyond the truism that less affluent voters who support small government and tax cuts are voting against their own economic interest." - O Magazine "By far the best book by an outsider to the Tea Party I have ever encountered . . . a wonderful contribution to the national discourse." - Forbes When Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a bewildered nation turned to Strangers in Their Own Land to understand what Trump voters were thinking when they cast their ballots. Arlie Hochschild, one of the most influential sociologists of her generation, had spent the preceding 5 years immersed in the community around Lake Charles, Louisiana, a Tea Party stronghold. As Jedediah Purdy put it in the New Republic, Hochschild is fascinated by how people make sense of their lives. . . . [Her] attentive, detailed portraits . . . reveal a gulf between Hochchild's 'strangers in their own land' and a new elite. Already a favorite common read book in communities and on campuses across the country and called humble and important by David Brooks and masterly by Atul Gawande, Hochschild's book has been lauded by Noam Chomsky, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, and countless others. The paperback edition features a new afterword by the author reflecting on the election of Donald Trump and the other events that have unfolded both in Louisiana and around the country since the hardcover edition was published, and also includes a readers' group guide at the back of the book. Author Biography ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD is one of the most influential sociologists of her generation. She is the author of 9 books, including The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Managed Heart, and The Outsourced Self. 3 of her books have been named as New York Times Notable Books of the Year and her work appears in 16 languages. The winner of the Ulysses Medal as well as Guggenheim and Mellon grants, she lives in Berkeley, California