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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found it to be an intereting personal memoir, but didn't think it analyzed/explained the group as a whole which was what I was expecting. [/quote]

Same.

I also can't figure out - was he writing this memoir and it just happened that the Trump phenomenon was happening?  Or did he see an opportunity?  It's the latter, right, since he's only 31? [/quote]

This isn't exactly a new phenomenon, e.g.,:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16197150-angry-white-men

Ta-Nehisi Coates' book Between the World and Me was written mostly as a reaction to the death of his friend Prince Jones a black man who was shot and killed without cause by a police officer (who also happened to be black).  That happened in 2000, so not a new phenomenon, but now sadly more frequent:
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/22/between_the_world_and_me_ta

Jeff, if you're looking for something to read--I was absolutely fascinated by the interview with the author of Blood at the Root about the racial purging of Forsyth County, GA:
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/15/494063372/the-racial-cleansing-that-drove-1-100-black-residents-out-of-forsyth-county-ga

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