<p><b><i><u>A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week</u><br><br>Underdogs </i></b><b>is a compelling, myth-busting account of white working-class Britain</b>.<br><br><b>''Few books bring so much fresh thinking to tired arguments'' </b>- Robert Ford, author of <i>Brexitland<br>________</i><br><br>No large group of people in Britain is as badly misunderstood as the white working class. Its members have been caricatured as grumpy and backward-looking, as incorrigibly xenophobic, even racist ¿ a tired and simplistic narrative perpetuated by commentators and the media. The truth is entirely different.<br><br>Thirty years ago, almost nobody talked about the white working class: in the House of Commons and the House of Lords the term had been used just three times in the previous two decades. Brexit helped to turn the group into a towering social and political force. But, in the aftermath, one-third of the population has been reduced to a cartoon. A shrewder analysis is badly needed. <i>Underdogs</i> p
