Kevin Gutzman zmienił swój status.
The New York Times recommends six books to help understand the outcome of the 2016 election, including Nancy Isenberg's _White Trash_, which--yes--discusses NASCAR and otherwise buys all kinds of negative, dismissive stereotypes of average white Americans popular with, oh, the editorial board of the New York Times. (Imagine if a pro-Trump newspaper published a list of books its readers should read in order to understand Hillary Clinton voters and one of them were entitled _Black Trash_. Of course, there will be no such book, and if there were, a pro-Trump paper wouldn't recommend it.)
Isenberg's first prominent book was _Forgotten Founder_, a biography of Aaron Burr--who wasn't in any sense a Founder. In my review of the book, I noted that Isenberg's love of Burr came from Burr's supposed feminism--which Isenberg saw in Burr's womanizing and his decision to give his daughter an education.
I last saw her at this year's conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, where she presented a paper lamenting that "Hamilton" did not devote more attention to race, class, and gender. Yes, that's what she said: a play with an explicitly racial casting call wasn't attentive enough to contemporary left-wing pieties (if I may juxtapose those words that way). We're still waiting for her to write a hit Broadway play on that topic.
