What to read in the age of Trump
What to read in the age of Trump
- January 20, 2017
- Russ Dalton, Center for the Study of Democracy, in the Democratic Audit UK, Jan. 20, 2017
Russell Dalton, professor of political science at University of California, Irvine: “What are the lessons that academics, politicians, and citizens should take away from the 2016 US election? Beyond the inevitable discussions about Trump’s excesses, there is a deeper issue of those less-educated citizens who voted for change. Bob Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis … is a powerful account of how the widening opportunity gap makes many working class Americans (and Europeans) losers in the race to modernity.
For the full story, please visit http://www.democraticaudit.com/2017/01/20/what-to-read-in-the-age-of-trump/.
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