"In a sad irony, the left has become blind to the distress that has drawn whites without BA degrees to the politics of the right, Joan Williams argues, in her eye-opening, punchy, highly important new book. This has allowed the Merchant Right to deflect blame for its losses onto the class-blind Brahmin left. Williams lifts off those blinders, and shows a way to uncover cross-class common ground on such issues as race, gay rights, immigration, climate change. If you despair of serious conversation across the political divide, or have never tried it, this is just the book for you."
Arlie Russell Hochschild
Author of Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the Right