Download or read book Reality TV’s Real Men of the Recession written by Shannon O'Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2000s, reality programs showcasing white, working-class men performing hazardous occupations in wilderness settings proliferated on U.S. cable networks. Shannon O’Sullivan argues that this genre represents a reactionary veneration of white, rural, working-class men as “real Americans” amid the Great Recession and current events.