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Nancy Isenberg is the author of New York Times bestseller White Trash, and Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography and won the Oklahoma Book Award for best book in Nonfiction. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, and writes regularly for Salon.com. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.

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	White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America 3.76 avg rating — 24,705 ratings — published 2016 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madison and Jefferson by Andrew Burstein (Goodreads Author), Nancy Isenberg 4.07 avg rating — 4,094 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr 3.77 avg rating — 2,160 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality by Nancy Isenberg, Andrew Burstein (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex & Citizenship in Antebellum America 3.40 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Left Elsewhere by Elizabeth Catte (Editor), Deborah Chasman (Contributor), Joshua Cohen (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mortal Remains: Death in Early America by Nancy Isenberg (Editor), Andrew Burstein (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gender and the Law : An Encyclopedia 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To stand out in heresy: Lucretia Mott, liberty, and the hysterical woman it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	French as Language of Intimacy in the Modern Age: Le français, langue de l'intime à l'époque moderne et contemporaine by Madeleine Strien-Chardonneau (Editor), Sophie Reinders (Contributor), Francesca Piselli (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“Poor whites are still taught to hate—but not to hate those who are keeping them in line. Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” We”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“How does a culture that prizes equality of opportunity explain, or indeed accommodate, its persistently marginalized people?”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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Border and Rule: - Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism - Harsha Walia

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