Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Recommended by Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University; Professor of African and African American Studies

A genuine effort to understand the viewpoints of decent, sane, often thoughtful supporters of the Tea Party and Trump — the people I don’t know very well outside of newspaper stories. Many students in my “Race in a Polarized America” course this spring voted it the best reading of the semester.