![]() ![]() The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today’s hillbillies. Yet the voters that put Trump in the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. ![]() “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg, #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list, takes on our comforting myths about equality, uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing-if occasionally entertaining-poor white trash. ![]()
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