{"product_id":"outclassed-how-the-left-lost-the-working-class-and-how-to-win-them-back-9781250368980","title":"Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2025, Long list\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eye-opening, urgent call to mend the broken relationship between college and non-college grads of all races that is driving politics to the far right in the US. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs there a single change that could simultaneously protect democracy, spur progress on climate change, enact sane gun policies, and improve our response to the next pandemic? Yes: changing the class dynamics driving American politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The far right manipulates class anger to undercut progressive goals and liberals often inadvertently play into their hands. In \u003ci\u003eOutclassed\u003c\/i\u003e, Joan C. Williams explains how to reverse that process by bridging the \"diploma divide\", while maintaining core progressive values. She offers college-educated Americans insights into how their values reflect their lives and their lives reflect their privilege. With illuminating stories --from the Portuguese admiral who led that country's COVID response to the lawyer who led the ACLU's gay marriage response (and more)-- Williams demonstrates how working-class values reflect working-class lives. Then she explains how the far right connects culturally with the working-class, deftly manipulating racism and masculine anxieties to deflect attention from the ways far-right policies produce the economic conditions disadvantaging the working-class. Whether you are a concerned citizen committed to saving democracy or a politician or social justice warrior in need of messaging advice, \u003ci\u003e Outclassed\u003c\/i\u003e offers concrete guidance on how liberals can forge a multi-racial cross-class coalition capable of delivering on progressive goals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250368980\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Joan C. Williams","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52715531960501,"sku":"9781250368980","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/outclassed-how-the-left-lost-the-working-class-and-how-to-win-them-back-9781250368980","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}