From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior comes the bitingly honest examination of the erosion of American liberty and the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump.
Sarah Kendzior is best known for her reporting on St. Louis and the 2016 election, her academic research on authoritarian states, and her New York Times bestselling debut The View from Flyover Country. She is an op-ed columnist for the Globe and Mail and was named one of Foreign Policy's "100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events." Her reporting has been featured in Politico, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The New York Times, and more. She lives in St. Louis.
"This fucking rocks."
--Tori Amos "[Kendzior's] book documents Trump's 'decades-long
erosion of American stability, integrity, and democracy.' I
recommend it, especially if you have any doubt about what's at
stake in this year's presidential election."
--Connie Schultz, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of
forthcoming novel The Daughters of Erietown "Sarah Kendzior, in her
brilliant new book, is one of the few journalists who grasps what
is happening. Kendzior is a student of autocracy... she has been
warning from the get-go that Trump is working to turn America into
one."
--David Cay Johnston, New York Times bestselling author of It's
Even Worse Than You Think and Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist "An
amazing book about our current political situation and how we got
here."
--Peter Gallagher "It's brilliant and also terrifying. You can't
look away."
--Alex George, author of The Paris Hours
"[Hiding in Plain Sight] outlines how Trump's rise coincided with
what ]Kendzior[ believes is the degradation of the American
political system and the continual erosion of civil liberties in
the country by foreign powers, revealing just how fragile American
democracy is right now."
--International Business Times, Top 10 Best Books About Donald
Trump in 2020
"A chilling account of how the media, government, and public have
failed to hold Trump accountable, and how this has significantly
impacted U.S. democracy."
--Library Journal Review "Hiding in Plain Sight isn't just about
Trump, but about how crumbling democracies intent on rolling back
the freedoms of its citizens create perfect conditions for the rise
of dangerous autocrats."
--Bitch Magazine, 2020 Nonfiction Preview
"Dazzling"
--The Chicago Daily Herald "Impeccably researched...This
comprehensive, page-turning account presents a stark and
uncompromising indictment of the Trump presidency as the
culmination of a 'decades-long erosion of American stability,
integrity, and democracy." --Publishers Weekly
"If you only read one journalistic account of Donald Trump's
America make sure it is Sarah Kendzior's Hiding in Plain
Sight."
--The Socialist Review "A scathing indictment of Donald
Trump...Kendzior offers fresh views based on her experiences living
in the declining economy of the Midwest and on observations as an
academic researcher studying dictatorships in the former Soviet
Union..... A passionate call for immediate action against the
'transnational crime syndicate' that has supplanted the U.S.
government." --Kirkus "Her highly readable and well-documented new
narrative explains the development of an elite criminal network in
America, how digital media has shaped repression and protest, and
how globalization has allowed the proliferation of organized
crime."
--National Review of Books
"Sarah Kendzior brings her unique perspective to bear in her
engaging new book." --The Arts Fuse "This is about our country.
Irrelevant of whether you consider yourself to be on the right or
the left.... Sarah has blown the whistle. The rich have gotten
richer, the government has been stripped and the powerful are ever
more so. You want to believe someone is on your page. That there's
someone to listen to, to inspire you... That's Sarah Kendzior."
--Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter "An elegantly written,
unforgiving, trenchant bit of political analysis."
--Inside HigherEd "Sarah Kendzior's Hiding in Plain Sight should be
required reading prior to the 2020 election. It shows the decline
of American politics into the corruption that inhabits the Oval
Office today.... By giving us a clear eyed view of what we're up
against, Sarah Kendzior has given us cause to continue the
fight."
--PrimmLife Praise for The View from Flyover Country A New York
Times Bestseller
An NPR Best Book of the Year 2018
"Both prescient and honest...seeing the roots of the arguments that
now dominate cable news is both fascinating and a little bit
haunting in retrospect." --NPR "Kendzior's prose is sharp and
consistent whether the essay is data dense or an opinion piece. She
maneuvers through big issues with a pace and clarity that makes
unpalatable topics fascinating, and unfortunately, relatable." --
Hyperallergic "The defining journalistic account of Trump's America
does complain, but it isn't best-selling gossip fodder like Michael
Wolff's Fire and Fury or James Comey's A Higher Loyalty. It's the
book from the Midwestern journalist who barely mentions the
president's name."
--Record-Eagle "Sharply written pieces about life and inequality in
middle America."
--Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 85 Books for Summer Reading An
academic, Midwesterner and firebrand, Kendzior crafts work that
looks unflinchingly at what ails the country." --Shelf Awareness,
starred review "It's a call to arms, highlighting the struggles of
disenfranchised, overworked, and underpaid Americans, and urging
our elected officials to recognize and address the inequalities
that have become even more pronounced since when she originally
wrote the essays." --The Village Voice "The View From Flyover
Country is well worth reading....Here is a thoughtful critic who
knows how to sound the alarm." --The Arts Fuse "Kendzior's essays
bring to light social injustice and economic inequality in Middle
America from a voice that lives there." --Medium "The talented
Kendzior...writes intelligently and with great empathy about
problems faced by the Midwest." --New York Post "Kendzior's
writing, while often concise and clever like this, is just as often
backed by statistics, attributions or an illustrative
profile...Though her message is alarming, it is softened with
compassion." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch "An astonishment and a
challenge to convention for all sorts of reasons...[One of the]
books devoted to where we really were not very long ago, where we
are now and where we might well be going. They don't mess around.
They play rough. But then the truth almost always does." --Buffalo
News "From Russia to flyover country, Sarah Kendzior might be the
voice we need." -- Columbia Journalism Review "Hers is a
crystalline voice of reason and appraisal in a world that shifts
further into unrecognizable territory minute-by-minute." -- Carol
Haggas, Booklist "A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces
about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly
assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." --
Kirkus "Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior
gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten
parts of our country, which provided fertile ground for the rise of
Trump." --AMY SISKIND, AUTHOR OF THE LIST "Urgent and beautifully
expressed . . . What makes Kendzior's writing so truly important
[is that] it documents where the problem lies, by somebody who
lives there. Read her." --THE WIRE "Kendzior is no psychic. She's
just whip-smart and an expert on authoritarian governments. She's
also that rare writer with an analyst's brain and an empath's
heart... Though the essays are topical and political...one senses
they'll stand the test of time, just for the beauty of the prose
and the soundness of the philosophy." --STEFENE RUSSELL, ST. LOUIS
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