Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right.
with author Arlie Russell Hochschild

Join National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild in conversation on her new book, Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right. 

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “pride paradox” that has given the right’s appeals such resonance. For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we’ve ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel “stolen”? In Stolen Pride, Hochschild focuses on a group swept up in the shifting political landscape: blue-collar men. In small churches, hillside hollers, roadside diners, trailer parks, and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Hochschild introduces us to unforgettable people, and offers an original lens through which to see them and the wider world. Hochschild incisively explores our dangerous times, even as she also points a way forward.

Praise for Stolen Pride:

“[A] piercing . . . impressive and nuanced assessment of a critical factor in American politics.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of many groundbreaking books, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind as well as Strangers in Their Own Land, which became an instant bestseller and was a finalist for a National Book Award, and Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (both from The New Press). Hochschild is professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild.