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Other books, e.g., Charles Murray's Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, have explored the diminishing fortunes of the white working and middle class in an abstract way. What's unique about Zaitchik's approach is that he mingles with Trump supporters at their homes, at VFW halls, at Trump rallies and just lets them talk. Long sections of the book are people speaking frankly about their struggles, their decaying neighborhoods, their vanishing industries, friends and family lost to
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Published before 'the journey into the dark heart of Trump's America' became a genre in The Atlantic and the New Yorker, and the only example of the genre worth reading.
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