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Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold

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4.7583 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in southwestern Pennsylvania to tell the story of a family living on the front lines of the fracking boom. Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild traveled to Louisiana to escape what she calls the “bubble” of coastal thinking. Both writers emerged with books that paint an honest portrait of a misunderstood America. On today’s program, tales of the people whose lives have been impacted by America’s craving for energy, the choices they’ve made, and their fight to protect their families and their environment. Guests: Eliza Griswold, Journalist, The New Yorker; Author, “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018) Arlie Russell Hochschild, Professor Emerita, University of California Berkeley; Author, “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right” (The New Press, 2018) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Red states versus blue states.

0:05.6

When it comes to projecting our environment, are we really two different Americas?

0:10.4

Climate One conversations with oil companies and environmentalists, Republicans and Democrats, are recorded before a live audience and hosted by Greg Dalton.

0:29.5

Thank you. audience and hosted by Greg Dalton. When the fracking industry came to her Pennsylvania community, Stacey Haney felt good about signing

0:34.5

over the rights to use her family farm.

0:36.9

To Stacy, it felt patriotic.

0:39.4

Her father was a Vietnam combat bet, and she really wanted to keep American troops out of

0:44.5

harm's way, out of foreign entanglements over oil. So she thought that she was really doing her duty

0:50.0

by signing this lease. What happened to Stacy's family as a result turned her world upside down.

1:01.5

New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold tells their story in her new book, Amity and Prosperity,

1:06.5

One Family and the Fracturing of America.

1:09.5

Spending time in this Appalachian community, says Griswold,

1:12.6

opened her eyes to a side of America that many don't know and don't bother to understand.

1:17.6

And we know what our stereotypes are, and we feed them.

1:20.6

You know, reporters go out for a day to Trump country.

1:22.6

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild also wanted to get past the stereotypes.

1:26.6

That led her to leave her

1:28.6

Berkeley bubble behind to spend five years reporting on the conservative community of Bayoucorn, Louisiana.

1:34.8

When I went there, I told him, hey, I'm from Berkeley, California. Interested the Tea Party. He said,

1:42.1

Berkeley, so y'all a communist, right? Hokeshild's book, Strangers in the Tea Party. He said, Berkeley, so y'all a communist, right?

1:46.7

Hokeshild's book, Strangers in Their Own Land, Anger and Mourning on the American Right,

1:51.3

tells the story of a community that's been betrayed by the promise of prosperity and by a government that has let them down.

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