‘The End of Loyalty’ and the Surge in Populist Sentiment

‘The End of Loyalty’ and the Surge in Populist Sentiment

In the literature that helps explain the shocking results of the presidential election of 2016, Rick Wartzman’s new book, The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America , merits a place alongside J. D. Vance’s well-known memoir of white working class alienation and despair, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis and the less well-known sociological study of American mores just before the election, The Vanishing Center of American Democracy , by James Davison Hunter and Carl Desportes Bowman, both of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture. The […]

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