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She understood what it meant to be lumpenproletariat , and made it her life's project to explain this outsiderness to America.
There are underdogs of a kind in his books--McCoy in Bonfire and the good family man Conrad Hensley in A Man in Full . But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat . The lower orders in Wolfe's novels, such as those who populate the jail where Conrad Hensley is imprisoned, are barely above the level of animals.
Talk show host Jerry Springer, the ringmaster of a lumpenproletariat circus, is enjoying a wonderful month.