Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. By Arlie Russell Hochschild. The New Press; 351 pages; $27.95. THE past is a foreign country. But so too is the present, says Arlie Hochschild, an American sociologist, of much of her own country. Ms Hochschild is a devoted liberal from Berkeley, California, and her latest book, “Strangers in Their Own Land”, is an astute study
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