Prosperity and Paradox: A Conversation with Arlie Hochschild and Eliza Griswold
b'Red states, blue states \\u2013 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 \\u201cbubble\\u201d of coastal thinking. Both writers emerged with books that paint an honest portrait of a misunderstood America. On today\\u2019s program, tales of the people whose lives have been impacted by America\\u2019s craving for energy, the choices they\\u2019ve made, and their fight to protect their families and their environment.\\n\\nGuests:\\n\\nEliza Griswold, Journalist, The New Yorker; Author, \\u201cAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\\u201d (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)\\n\\nArlie Russell Hochschild, Professor Emerita, University of California Berkeley; Author, \\u201cStrangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right\\u201d (The New Press, 2018)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'