profile the same Pennsylvania Trump voter, a longtime Democrat who made the switch. And two 2018 books - “The Great Revolt” by Salena Zito and Brad Todd and “The Forgotten” by Ben Bradlee Jr. Even so, she methodically caricatures them, dividing them into contrived categories to resolve their Great Paradox and unearth their Deep Story.
She imagines they’ll be “selfish, tough, cold people” and is surprised to find them kind and charitable. In “Strangers in Their Own Land,” sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild prepares for her interviews with conservatives in southwestern Louisiana by reading Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” because she figures they’re into that. But too many writers foist preconceived stories onto unsuspecting characters.