Review: What we got wrong in the fog of MAGA about the white working class
by Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times
Oct 14, 2020
4 minutes
"The Riches of This Land: The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class" by Jim Tankersley; PublicAffairs (320 pages, $28)
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In July 1969, in a bar with a black and white television, Bob Thompson watched Apollo 11 land on the moon. One of 25,000 workers at a North American Rockwell aerospace plant, he had played a small part, spraying foam on the command module.
Nursing a longneck Bud, "Bob was thinking about the moon," writes Jim Tankersley in his book, "The Riches of This Land." "Kings and queens and Jesus Christ himself. They all stared up at that moon. And when the time
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