Spencer Piston. Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2018. 248 pp. $99.99 (cloth). $29.99 (paper)

How do Americans feel about the rich and the poor, and how do those feelings matter for political attitudes and behavior? Spencer Piston’s Class Attitudes in America: Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and Political Implications (2018) argues that Americans support downwardly redistributive public policy when they have strong feelings of sympathy toward the poor and resentment toward the rich. While individuals may mention the poor...