The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America

by Robert Wuthnow

Book Overview

How a fraying social fabric is fueling the outrage of rural Americans

What is fueling rural America's outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And, beyond economic and demographic decline, is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America's small...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069117766X
• ISBN13: 9780691177663
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"