Love and Hate in the Heartland: Dispatches from Forgotten America
Meet the “deplorables.” Meet the majority that was silent until the election of President Donald Trump. Meet the Middle Americans whom globalism and the modern economy have left behind.

In a collection of beautifully written vignettes telling of family history and bar stool interviews and stubborn beliefs and resignation, Mark Phillips gathers a collage of the forgotten Americans—the Americans that urbanites didn’t know existed, pollsters couldn’t define, and politicians sought to target. The Alleghenians featured, the author among them, feel left adrift. They are not politically active; they are more concerned with eking out a living after factories have failed than with the intricacies of the Affordable Care Act.

Love and Hate in the Heartland goes beyond talking heads and superficial media portrayals to tell stories of humanity, strength, resilience, generosity, and self-reliance. Faced with a bleak outlook, these noble ideals mingle with resignation and misguided bitterness. Written in evocative and graceful prose, it gives faces to the voices we heard in November 2016.
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Love and Hate in the Heartland: Dispatches from Forgotten America
Meet the “deplorables.” Meet the majority that was silent until the election of President Donald Trump. Meet the Middle Americans whom globalism and the modern economy have left behind.

In a collection of beautifully written vignettes telling of family history and bar stool interviews and stubborn beliefs and resignation, Mark Phillips gathers a collage of the forgotten Americans—the Americans that urbanites didn’t know existed, pollsters couldn’t define, and politicians sought to target. The Alleghenians featured, the author among them, feel left adrift. They are not politically active; they are more concerned with eking out a living after factories have failed than with the intricacies of the Affordable Care Act.

Love and Hate in the Heartland goes beyond talking heads and superficial media portrayals to tell stories of humanity, strength, resilience, generosity, and self-reliance. Faced with a bleak outlook, these noble ideals mingle with resignation and misguided bitterness. Written in evocative and graceful prose, it gives faces to the voices we heard in November 2016.
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Love and Hate in the Heartland: Dispatches from Forgotten America

Love and Hate in the Heartland: Dispatches from Forgotten America

by Mark Phillips
Love and Hate in the Heartland: Dispatches from Forgotten America

Love and Hate in the Heartland: Dispatches from Forgotten America

by Mark Phillips

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Meet the “deplorables.” Meet the majority that was silent until the election of President Donald Trump. Meet the Middle Americans whom globalism and the modern economy have left behind.

In a collection of beautifully written vignettes telling of family history and bar stool interviews and stubborn beliefs and resignation, Mark Phillips gathers a collage of the forgotten Americans—the Americans that urbanites didn’t know existed, pollsters couldn’t define, and politicians sought to target. The Alleghenians featured, the author among them, feel left adrift. They are not politically active; they are more concerned with eking out a living after factories have failed than with the intricacies of the Affordable Care Act.

Love and Hate in the Heartland goes beyond talking heads and superficial media portrayals to tell stories of humanity, strength, resilience, generosity, and self-reliance. Faced with a bleak outlook, these noble ideals mingle with resignation and misguided bitterness. Written in evocative and graceful prose, it gives faces to the voices we heard in November 2016.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781510734982
Publisher: Skyhorse
Publication date: 04/10/2018
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Mark Phillips is the author of My Father's Cabin, and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Salon, Saturday Review, and Country Life. He has also worked as a beekeeper and occasional maple syrup producer in upstate New York.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Waiting for Trump

When We Had It Made in America 3

Don't They Teach This in College? 11

Lay of the Land 21

Calvin's Wager 31

Lost in Storyland 39

At Last, a Fighter's Peace 49

Bigots I Have Loved 57

Positively 16th Street 67

The Devil Made Them Do It 73

Our Town 85

Nobody's Home 89

Applause for the Magi 99

Terrible Beauty 105

Brief Intimacies

Time Enough for a Story 115

Spring 127

I Am the Sin-Eater 137

Souls of Hills and Hollows 141

Skinny Dipping with Wildlife 147

A Good Place 151

Songs 157

Absolution 171

Epilogue 177

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