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From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What\u2019s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of his incisive commentary on our cruel times\u2014perfect for this political moment

What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America\u2019s winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country?

With his sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration and describing the worlds of both the winners and the losers\u2014the sprawling mansion districts as well as the lives of fast-food workers.

Rendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in our cities, in our jobs, in the way we travel\u2014and of course in our politics, where in 2016, millions of anxious ordinary people rallied to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.