Nancy Isenberg

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Nancy Isenberg

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“Formidable and truth-dealing… It deals with the truths that matter.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Historian Nancy Isenberg’s critically acclaimed and bestselling White Trash has been called a “groundbreaking and landmark book” upending the comforting myths about America as the land of equal opportunity and social mobility.

With White Trash Isenberg puts class under the kind of lens that writers like Cornel West and Ta-Nehisi Coates put race, and gives a historical context to writings on contemporary inequality. Opening with a myth-busting origin story, Isenberg reveals how the English class divisions were embraced in the settling of America and how colonization and expansion were accomplished because the upper class believed the poor were only valuable for the labor they provided.

Nancy Isenberg is the author of 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 and was #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list.

“Isenberg has written an important call for Americans to treat class with the same care that they now treat race.”

TIME

Book Signing

Join us in the Music Hall Foyer after the lecture to get your book signed or personalized. Classic Lines will have books for sale.

Underwritten by The Pittsburgh Foundation

With Additional Support by Point Park University

White Trash by Nancy Isenberg

WHEN

Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.

TICKETS

A limited number of tickets starting at $15 are currently available.

Additional seats may become available on the day of the lecture due to returns. These seats are sold on a first-come, first-served basis between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m. that evening.

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WHERE

Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213

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