The Forgotten

A great read. --Bill O'Boyle, The Wilkes Barre Times Leader With 'The Forgotten, ' Bradlee adds to the body of emerging studies about white Trump voters that is sensitive but honest, amid a demographically changing, divided nation.''--Russell Contreras, AP News Fresh and illuminating. --The National Book Review What makes The Forgotten memorable is not the white-working-class cliches or cross-cultural animosity, but how our national divides are reflected within individual families. --Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post Engrossing...insightful...a book full of hard truths.''--The Boston Globe The Forgotten is a riveting and empathetic portrait of a cross-section of (mostly disillusioned) people of Luzerne County, PA., which arguably gave Trump that state -and the Presidency. As we near the 2018 midterms, which will largely be a referendum on the Trump Presidency and the future of our nation, Ben Bradlee Jr.'s listening -reporting of the stories of those whose votes shook this country in 2016 offers complex, sobering and important lessons for the future of our country. --Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation Pennsylvania has long fancied itself 'the keystone state' -- the piece that holds together the arch of the nation. In 2016, when the nation came apart in disturbing ways, this state's role was especially revealing. Ben Bradlee Jr.'s meticulous reporting illuminates the riveting story of how people who felt forgotten discovered how to get the nation's attention. --George F. Will, Washington Post and syndicated columnist Ben Bradlee's The Forgotten is an eyeopening look at the American electorate in the Age of Trump. By honing in on a singular Pennsylvania county Bradlee brilliantly dissects the myriad of reasons behind our Great Political Divide. A must read! -----Douglas Brinkley, Historian and Professor of History at Rice University This is a book that should be absorbed by the millions of Democrats who still cannot understand how Donald Trump won in 2016. Bradlee did what the brightest editors in New York and California did not assign their reporters to do -- he spent months talking to white working class Americans in a rural county in Pennsylvania -- a nominally blue state -- and learned the hard way, on the job, that Trump was a far more viable candidate than the elite thought. This is a real reporter's book. --Seymour M. Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter This searing portrait shines a light on the disheartened voters the Democratic Party forgot. --Arlie Russell Hochschild, The Washington Post A valuable glimpse into the communities where Trump's candidacy resonated and where his presidency continues to unite those who feel shut out. --Real Clear Politics, Book of the Week As Bradlee relates the findings from his in-depth conversations with Luzerne voters, he avoids stereotypes and pat answers...fascinating. --Kirkus Reviews