Second Class

"""While our politicians and academics fight about this is and that, most working Americans are simply doing their best to achieve the American Dream--something they feel is slipping away from them. Pick up a newspaper, switch on cable news, and you only hear about the elites, almost nothing of the workers. Batya's book, does the opposite. It focuses on working Americans: Their concerns, their fears, and despite that, ultimately their love of being American, notwithstanding all our flaws."" --Chris Arnade, author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America ""The gravest threat to our republic is an elite determined to rule a nation that it no longer cares to understand. In Second Class, Batya Ungar-Sargon has done the hard work for them, illuminating the lives of the common men and women whose diverse hopes, fears, priorities, and challenges must return to the center of our politics. Put down whatever book you're reading by an expert eager to lecture you about America and read this one instead, by someone who has taken the time to learn about it."" --Oren Cass, founder and executive director, American Compass ""Second Class is the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is coming, and it's my hope that the end result will work in favor of our all-too-neglected American working class. When that realignment comes, Batya and her book will help lead the way."" --Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind"