In What's the Matter with White People?, popular The Nation columnist Joan Walsh argues that the biggest divide in America today is not about party or ideology, but about two competing narratives for why everything has fallen apart since the 1970s. One side sees an America that has spent the last forty years bankrupting the country providing benefits and advantages to the underachieving, the immoral, and the undeserving, no matter the cost to Middle America. The other sees an America that has spent the last forty years bankrupting the country providing benefits and advantages to the very rich, while allowing a measure of cultural progress for the different and the downtrodden. It matters which side is right, and how the other side got things so wrong.

NOTE: This book is recommended by diversity educator Jane Elliott.

About the Author

Joan Walsh is an American political pundit and journalist. She is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and a political analyst at MSNBC. A New York native, she attended the University of Wisconsin.

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