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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
The book was highlighted by the hosts after guest Sarah Smarsh appeared on the show, with Jon Stewart introducing her as the author. They discussed it as a crucial lens for understanding working‑class voters by exploring the intersection of class and identity. Smarsh emphasized the importance of centering class as its own identity in current political discourse.
Episode: Left Behind: Why Democrats Lost the Working Class
This book, written by guest Sarah Smarsh, explored the intersection of class and identity in America, which the hosts discussed as a crucial lens for understanding working-class voters.
Her name is Sarah Smarsh. She's a journalist. She's the author of Bone of the Bone, Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class.
This really feels like a moment when maybe my message about class and the way that we need to center it and discuss it as an identity unto itself is really critical right now.