Stolen Pride

Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

De: Arlie Russell Hochschild

Narrado por: Ellen Archer

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and best-selling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.

For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"?

Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation, where the city was reeling: coal jobs had left, crushing poverty persisted, and a deadly drug crisis struck the region. Although Pikeville was in the political center thirty years ago, by 2016, 80 percent of the district's population voted for Donald Trump. Her brilliant exploration of the town's response to a white nationalist march in 2017—a rehearsal for the deadly Unite the Right march that would soon take place in Charlottesville, Virginia—takes us deep inside a torn and suffering community.

Hochschild focuses on a group swept up in the shifting political landscape: blue-collar men. In small churches, hillside hollers, roadside diners, trailer parks, and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Hochschild introduces us to unforgettable people, and offers an original lens through which to see them and the wider world. In Stolen Pride, Hochschild incisively explores our dangerous times, even as she also points a way forward.

©2024 Arlie Russell Hochschild (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"A piercing ... impressive and nuanced assessment of a critical factor in American politics." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

Most Important Book Today

If you want to understand America today, you could do no better than this book.

interesting conversations

In this book, the author helps the reader to better understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide in our country. Conversations take place in Pikeville, Kentucky in 2017, around the time of a white nationalist march. This is an area that voted 80% for Trump. We learn through conversations with many sorts of people that everyone is different, even with shared common ground. As a northerner, I feel like I better understand why people feel and vote like they do. Anything that succeeds in that way is a good and important book. The author makes some general statements, but the power of this book is in getting to know others well. This succeeded.

Gripping and insightful

Compelling and compassionate insight from thorough research. Highly recommend for people who want to understand the political and cultural divide in our country.

Excellent book

I gained an understanding of the current state of the US public and its potential implications.

The individual stories of rural americans

I learned a lot about myself and people who were different from me. I was able to walk in others shoes

Interesting thesis that is supported by lots of in depth interviewing and credible vignettes.

A serious sociological study of struggles and fortitude in rural Kentucky coal country. The author provides compelling examples of people sharing their life experiences and varied views, as heard by an empathetic and genuinely curious listener. The pride/ shame relationship and its connection to contemporary presidential politics was both prescient and convincing to me. Definitely worth reading and thinking about.

Insightful - Prophetic

Anyone pondering the results of the 2024 election will benefit from this thoughtful and insightful book.

We’re More Alike than Different Across the Political Divide

This is a compelling story about residents of Pike County, KY, and why most of them are Republicans supporting Trump across all economic strata. None are deplorables and only one may be a racist. Quite like residents of NYC only a different pride/shame economy in place. Expanding economic opportunities and pride in rural America is a most to bridge our seemingly intractable political divide.

Excellent!

Creative, thoughtful discussion of the “stayers” in rural Kentucky, but more importantly a compe explanation

Time of research

This was a very informational book. I enjoy reading others research. However, I wonder how different the responses would’ve been had Covid not happened. Outside of that, I have no complaints, but I’m not a picky person.