Former Boston Globe editor and reporter Ben Bradlee Jr. (who was portrayed by John Slattery in the Oscar-winning film Spotlight) focuses on a single Pennsylvania county of Trump voters. He describes Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, as 'a prism through which to explore the undercurrents of one of the most historic elections in American history'.

As Bradlee relates the findings from his in-depth conversations with Luzerne voters, he avoids stereotypes and pat answers...fascinating.

This is a book that should be absorbed by the millions of Democrats who still cannot understand how Donald Trump won in 2016. Bradlee did what the brightest editors in New York and California did not assign their reporters to do-he spent months talking to white working-class Americans in a rural county in Pennsylvania, a nominally blue state, and learned the hard way, on the job, that Trump was a far more viable candidate than the elite thought. This is a real reporter's book.

The Forgotten is a riveting and empathetic portrait of a cross-section of (mostly disillusioned) people of Luzerne County, PA, which arguably gave Trump that state - and the presidency. As we near the 2018 midterms, which will largely be a referendum on the Trump presidency and the future of our nation, Ben Bradlee Jr.'s 'listening-reporting' of the stories of those whose votes shook this country in 2016 offers complex, sobering, and important lessons for the future of our country.

Pennsylvania has long fancied itself 'the keystone state' - the piece that holds together the arch of the nation. In 2016, when the nation came apart in disturbing ways, this state's role was especially revealing. Ben Bradlee Jr.'s meticulous reporting illuminates the riveting story of how people who felt forgotten discovered how to get the nation's attention.

Ben Bradlee's The Forgotten is an eye-opening look at the American electorate in the Age of Trump. By honing in on a singular Pennsylvania county, Bradlee brilliantly dissects the myriad of reasons behind our Great Political Divide. A must-read!