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Dreadful Sorry: Essays on an American Nostalgia
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Candid essays on personal and cultural American nostalgia, focusing on the author’s working-class, Rust Belt family history.
What does it mean to be nostalgic for the American past? The feeling has been co-opted by the far right (“Make America Great Again,” after all, is a plea for the past), and associated with violent periods of our country’s history when white supremacy was even more dominant than today. Can a liberal white woman still be sentimental about her childhood, her European imm...