Now a Washington Post Bestseller.
Tim Carney will change the way you look at the challenges facing modern America and present a framework for leading us out of the wilderness..
Alienated America confirms the conservative suspicion that these Places can\'t be fixed with job-training programs or more entitlement spending, and backs up the liberal belief that new Trump voters aren\'t coming to his rallies for the corporate tax cuts and Obamacare repeal.
Carney visits 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.
The educated and wealthy elites, on the other hand, tend to live in Places where institutions are strong, or have enough money to insulate themselves.
Even when money comes back to town, happiness does not return if people there do not reengage.
These communities have seen declines in marriage, voting, church attendance, and volunteer work.
In Some parts of the United States, life seems to be getting worse because citizens are facing their problems alone.
Washington Examiner editor Timothy Carney traveled Middle America, pored over county-level maps and data, and sorted through sociological studies, and had a startling revelation: Donald Trump is right, but the death of the American Dream is a social phenomenon, not an economic one.
Trump proclaimed, The American Dream is dead, a message that resonated across the country.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald J.
Now a Washington Post Bestseller
