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Nancy Isenberg, an American historian interested on “gender and politics, cultural and legal history in the U.S”, currently teaches at the Louisiana State University. Isenberg received awards and honors for her notables works. Analytical and detail oriented Nancy Isenberg published White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, which received a nomination for Goodreads Choice Awards Best History & Biography. “Living near the Swamp, they suffered from “distempers of laziness,” which made the slothful in everything but getting children.”(NIsenberg54) Nancy Isenberg argues how America has shockingly gone on a route of corruption, driven by an infestation class of idle Americans. Isenberg informs the readers how the poor remained

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