Ian Birrell

America sees red: how fury prompted the slide into Trumpism

Evan Osnos focuses on three places — Chicago, Greenwich, Connecticut and Clarksburg, West Virginia — to explain the dislocating anger that erupted in the US

The desolation left as schools close in the depopulated mining towns of West Virginia. [Getty Images] 
issue 11 September 2021
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    Bloomsbury, pp. 480, £20

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