“We need [journalists] who can walk into a factory without guilt fogging their glasses. One such journalist, Alexander Zaitchik, spent several months on the road getting to know people he wisely describes as ‘blue-collar middle class’… people who have worked hard and lost a lot, whether in the market crash of 2008 or the manufacturing layoffs of recent decades. The Gilded Rage conveys the human complexity that daily news misses.”