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Book SynopsisNational bestseller
"Masterful." —Jane Mayer, best-selling author of
Dark MoneyTrade Review"[
The Fall of Wisconsin] laments the state’s recent trajectory and chronicles ‘the conservative war’ on its political legacy.… Sharply reported." -- Michael O’Donnell - New York Times Book Review
"Belongs with well-known recent studies such as J.D. Vance’s
Hillbilly Elegy and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s
Strangers in Their Own Land." -- Ron Elving - NPR
"Dan Kaufman shows how the state became a conservative test case.… Kaufman believes that Wisconsin’s extreme makeover portends something scary for the rest of us." -- Jennifer Szalai - New York Times
"Kaufman’s taut primer on Wisconsin progressivism hits his mark.… [A]n indispensable guide for activists who wish to have any hope of taking on the vast Republican infrastructure." -- Jake Wertz - Los Angeles Review of Books
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The Fall of Wisconsin shows that the most important story in American politics was hiding in plain sight." -- Jeffrey Toobin
"A deep, heartbreaking dive into a state’s shift to the right tells the story of national politics in miniature." -- Newsweek
"Absorbing.… [Kaufman] presents the state as emblematic of nationwide trends." -- M.J. Andersen - Boston Globe
"Kaufman burrows badgerlike into the politics of America’s Dairyland, unearthing the personal histories of its people.… In doing so, he reveals Wisconsin’s transformation from a ‘pioneering beacon’ of progressive policies, responsible for the nation’s first worker’s-comp and unemployment-insurance programs, to ‘a laboratory for corporate interests.’" -- Michelle Hart - O Magazine
"This is a book about political power, its seizure, its uses, and its victims—a powerful amassing of tiny stories of struggle and resistance and often defeat against impossible odds." -- John Dolan - Bookforum
"A highly readable, thoroughly engrossing report." -- Jim Swearingen - National Book Review
