![]() ![]() ![]() Andrew Jackson's cracker country: the squatter as common man) Part two: Degeneration of the American Breed (6. Thomas Jefferson's rubbish: a curious topography of class 5. Benjamin Franklin's American breed: the demographics of mediocrity 4. John Locke's Lubberland: the settlements of Carolina and Georgia 3. Taking out the trash: waste people in the New World 2. Introduction: Fables we forget by - Part one: To begin the world anew (1. Includes bibliographical references and index Originally published: New York: Viking, 2016 Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America's supposedly class-free society - where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility - and forces a nation to face the truth about enduring malevolent nature of class In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of the American fabric, and reveals how the wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlements to today's hillbillies. ![]()
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