Ruth Conniff, author of MILKED - an in-person Boswell event

2559 North Downer Avenue,Milwaukee WI 53211

03 August, 2022

Description

Boswell Book Company hosts an evening with Ruth Conniff, author of Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers. In the Midwest, Mexican workers have become critically important to the survival of rural areas and small towns - and to the individual farmers who rely on their work - with undocumented immigrants, mostly from Mexico, accounting for an estimated 80 percent of employees on the dairy farms of western Wisconsin. In Milked, Ruth Conniff introduces us to the migrants who worked on these dairy farms, their employers, among them white voters who helped elect Donald Trump to office in 2016, and the surprising friendships that have formed between these two groups of people. These stories offer a rich and fascinating account of how two crises - the record-breaking rate of farm bankruptcies in the Upper Midwest, and the contentious politics around immigration - are changing the landscape of rural America. From David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father: "From the back roads of Mexico to the dairy farms of Wisconsin, Milked is a wondrous and important work of 'going there' reportage. Ruth Conniff breaks through so many misperceptions and stereotypes to reveal the commonality of the human experience." Ruth Conniff is the editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and editor-at-large and former editor-in-chief of The Progressive magazine. She has appeared on Good Morning America, C-SPAN, and NPR and has been a frequent guest on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. This is her first book. Click here to order your copy of Milked. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.