The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by Packer, George
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by Packer, George

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKAN NPR BEST...
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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by Packer, George

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

CHF 21.83
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by Packer, George

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

CHF 21.83
Author: George Packer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK

Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political Book
A New Republic Best Book

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation.

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.

The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era's leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents.

The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.

Author: George Packer
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 03/04/2014
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780374534608


Award: National Book Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 03/07/2014 pg. 69
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2014 pg. 28

About the Author
George Packer is an award-winning author and staff writer at The Atlantic. His books include The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award), The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, and Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century (winner of the Hitchens Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography). He is also the author of novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.
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