Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women

Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it's my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way. — Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind Who is the American working class? Do they still have a fair shot at the American Dream? What do they think about their chances to secure the hallmarks of a middle-class life? While writing this book, Batya Ungar-Sargon visited states across the nation to speak with members of the American working-class fighting tooth and nail to survive. In Second Class, working-class Americans of all races, political orientations, and occupations share their stories—cleaning ladies, health...M.F With deep reporting from Americas blue-collar heartland coupled with quantitative data analysis explaining how representative each of the people we meet are, P romised Land will provide readers with an ethnography of todays working class, introducing them to people across the countrytheir neighborswho are fighting tooth and nail for a fair shot at the American Dream.