America Is 'Purple Like A Bruise'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 24, 2018

Sarah Kendzior, reporter, op-ed columnist for The Globe and Mail, and the author of The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America (Flatiron Books, 2018), shares what she learned about America while reporting on the Midwest for Al Jazeera that led to her early prediction of a Trump victory.

→Sarah will be reading at Housing Works Bookstore Café in conversation with Amy Siskind on Wednesday, April 25 at 7:00pm.

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