Sarah Kendzior
Sarah Kendzior is a journalist with a Ph.D. in anthropology who lectures on politics, the economy, and the media. Since 2006, she has regularly given talks and keynotes at universities and policy forums around the world. She is the author of the best-selling book The View From Flyover Country, which was re-released in 2018 after originally being published as an eBook in 2015 and becoming a bestseller the following year, and her new book Hiding in Plain Sight. In 2017, Sarah gave dozens of talks in eight countries, mostly focusing on encroaching autocracy and what to expect in the Trump era.
Sarah Kendzior received her Ph.D. studying the authoritarian states of the former Soviet Union and has since had to put that expertise to use in explaining what is happening to the United States. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2012, she became a columnist for Al Jazeera English, and also began freelancing for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, and Quartz. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of 2014 and 2015 covering the Ferguson uprising and its aftermath. In 2016, Sarah became a columnist at the Globe and Mail, focusing on the US election, and also covered US affairs for the Dutch outlet De Correspondent. Today she continues to write regularly for the Globe and Mail, NBC News, and Fast Company.
Sarah has over 350,000 followers on Twitter and is regularly interviewed by the media both in the US and abroad. In summer 2018, she launched the Gaslit Nation podcast with Andrea Chalupa. She is a recurring guest on the MSNBC show AM Joy, where she discusses corruption in the Trump administration as well as the Russian interference scandal. Sarah has a very large and diverse audience and has been an invited speaker at policy forums, grassroots activist groups, universities, film festivals, and think tanks.
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The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history, and wholly unique.
It is one thing to study the fall of democracy, another to have it hit your home...Read More
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FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
“Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-seeking left me thinking of Herman Melville."
—Timothy Snyder, #1 New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author Sarah Kendzior delves into the difference between conspirac...Read More
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Co-hosts of the popular podcast Gaslit Nation outline the authoritarian's playbook, illuminating five steps every dictator needs to take to successfully amass and maintain power.
Do you crave the power to shape the world in your image?
Can you tell lies without blinking an eye?
Do you see enemies all around you?
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New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how th...Read More
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Authoritarianism in the Trump Era
Sarah Kendzior uses her expertise to discuss the political issues in the age of Trump.
The View From Flyover Country
Sarah Kendzior critiques the labor exploitation, race relations, gentrification, media bias, and other aspects of the post-employment economy in America that gave rise to a president who rules like an autocrat.
Sarah Kendzior is a guest on Swing State to talk about her book.
WUWM chats with Sarah Kendzior.
Listen to Sarah Kendzior on the Rick Smith Show discussing President Trump’s Helsinki comments.
Read the Hyperallergic review of The View from Flyover Country.
Learn more about Sarah on her website.
Follow Sarah Kendzior on Twitter.
Watch Sarah Kendzior talk about The View From Flyover Country on C-Span Book TV.
Listen to Sarah Kendzior on The Jim Bohannon Show, St. Louis Public Radio, KTRS 550am, and WNYC.
Check out this interview with Sarah on From PhD to Life.
Read this article by Sarah on The Guardian in which she discusses the affects of the Trump administration on national parks.
Take a look at some of Sarah Kendzior’s political journalism on Muck Rack
Praise for The View From Flyover Country
“A St. Louis-based journalist, Kendzior has been called ‘a Cassandra in Trumpland,’ analyzing in these short essays the social trends and discontent in Middle America that built the president’s base.”
— New York Times Book Review“The talented Kendzior…writes intelligently and with great empathy about problems faced by the Midwest.”
— New York Post“Hers is a crystalline voice of reason and appraisal in a world that shifts further into unrecognizable territory minute-by-minute.”
— Carol Haggas, Booklist“A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland…Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize.”
— Kirkus“Authoritarianism does not happen in a vacuum. Kendzior gives us valuable information about conditions in the forgotten parts of our country, which provided fertile ground for the rise of Trump.”
— Amy Siskind, author of The List“Urgent and beautifully expressed . . . What makes Kendzior’s writing so truly important [is that] it documents where the problem lies, by somebody who lives there. Read her.”
— The Wire“Kendzior is no psychic. She’s just whip-smart and an expert on authoritarian governments. She’s also that rare writer with an analyst’s brain and an empath’s heart… Though the essays are topical and political…one senses they’ll stand the test of time, just for the beauty of the prose and the soundness of the philosophy.”
— Stefene Russell, St. Louis MagazineBook This Speaker
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