Jon Jeter presents "Class War in America: How the Elites Divide the Nation by Asking 'Are You a Worker or Are You White?'"

Jon Jeter presents "Class War in America: How the Elites Divide the Nation by Asking 'Are You a Worker or Are You White?'"

Friday, December 6th 2024
7:00 pm
Red Emma's
A bracing and thought-provoking study of race and class clashes in American history.

Jon Jeter’s full-throttle, full-hearted epic work, CLASS WAR IN AMERICA, is as spellbinding a page-turner as it is a brilliant, scholarly, and intensely personal telling of stories of race relations in this class-ridden U.S.A. Even more surprising is that he tickles your funnybone along the way with a wry brand of humor.

This is anything but a dry re-telling of history. Spanning decades of solidarity and betrayal among working people—betrayal engineered by this country’s oligarchs—from the Civil War era to today, Jeter weaves together a people’s history of labor unions, political economy and grassroots movements and their intersection with every segment of American society.

In stories of ordinary people you will visit heroes as diverse as Ethel Rosenberg and Tupac Shakur, Tallulah Bankhead and Fred Hampton, Howard Zinn and Richard Pryor, and villains that span the gamut from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton, and Benjamin “Pitchfork” Tillman to Jimmy Carter.

And with the exquisite story-telling of a true journalist, Jeter brings to life real people and transports you to the scene of historic events.

Jon Jeter is the author of FLAT BROKE IN THE FREE MARKET: HOW GLOBALIZATION FLEECED WORKING PEOPLE, and the co-author of A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT: BRIGHT NIGHTS AND DARK DAYS IN OBAMA'S POST-RACIAL AMERICA. He is also a former foreign Bureau Chief for the Washington Post and a senior producer for THIS AMERICAN LIFE.

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