Nancy Isenberg

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• SOURCE: TribLIVE
  9-24-17
  

  Nancy Isenberg says what Americans think is exceptional about them is that they erased class distinctions

  Of course, it’s a myth.

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• 7-14-16
  

  Review of Nancy Isenberg’s “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America”

  by Daniel Lazare

  A well-timed book about the monsters that middle-class America tried to repress.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  7-3-16
  

  Nancy Isenberg shows how class shaped American history in her new book, “White Trash"

  In an interview she says class is often overlooked because Americans prefer myth to reality.

• SOURCE: Salon
  1-27-13
  

  Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg: No Red States, No Blue States

  Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg are professors of history at LSU and coauthors of "Madison and Jefferson," now a Random House paperback. When Virginian Thomas Jefferson provocatively wrote that the tree of liberty would have to be refreshed periodically with the blood of patriots and tyrants, he did not reckon on tyranny arising in the midst of the Virginia state Legislature from a creeping faction of smarmy hooligans primed to convert Democratic districts into Republican ones overnight. It’s in the news this week. But it’s been brewing ever since Bush v. Gore.Someone’s always talking about dumping the general ticket plurality system – the way we have tallied the votes of the states in presidential elections since 1789 – in favor of the district system. By this means we would be tallying electoral votes one congressional district at a time rather than awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to a single candidate. Article Two, Section 1 of the Constitution says that each state legislature determines on its own how its presidential electors (i.e., those who comprise the Electoral College) are to be chosen.