Yet, I found “ White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America” by Nancy Isenberg to be most instructive in detailing the origins of the long-held class resentments that this campaign has surfaced. Vance and the acclaimed but condescending “ Strangers in Their Own Land” by Arlie Russell Hochschild have gotten plenty of attention. Like Michelle Obama read her own book, Hillary Clinton also reads this one.Of course, 2016 has been the year that the white working class was rediscovered as an object of journalistic fascination and electoral strategizing, and books such as the poignant but preachy “Hillbilly Elegy” by J.D. I own a copy of the Dutch edition of this book, but I found the audiobook version of is, so I've switched to that one.
Interesting times were Hillary's years in the White House, but the description of these times felt like as told from a distance, without really tangible passion, awe and a touch of humility. This life in public feels much further away from my life than Becoming, although they describe the same things: being a first lady, raising a child in the White House, being married to a president, living in the public eye. This book was more politics, meetings, strategy, than the memoirs of a mother, a wife. I can't help comparing the two, 'reading' them one after the other.
It was not a bad book, but it didn't interest or touch me nearly as the book by Michelle Obama did. Well, the abriged version (still 5 hours of audio) is done.
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