Alienated America: Why Some Communities Thrive While Others Collapse
Tim Carney, author of “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse,” visited all corners of America, from the dim country bars of southwestern Pennsylvania to the bustling Mormon wards of Salt Lake City, and provides the most important data and research to explain why failing social connections are responsible for the great divide in America. Alienated America confirms the suspicion of some conservatives that job-training programs or other public policy solutions alone are not sufficient to fix these places, and it strengthens a liberal narrative that new Trump voters aren’t coming to his rallies for the corporate tax cuts and Obamacare repeal.