The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

ISBN-13: 9780374534608 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 448 str.

George Packer

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The 2013 National Book Award Winner
A New York Times Bestseller

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 tells the story of the past three decades by journeying through the lives of several Americans, including a son of tobacco farmers who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money, and a Silicon Valley billionaire who arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these stories with sketches of public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.

O autorze

George Packer gilt als einer der besten Journalisten und Sachbuchautoren Amerikas. Er ist festes Mitglied der Redaktion des New Yorker und Autor mehrerer preisgekrönter Bücher. George Packer lebt in Brooklyn. Im Frühjahr 2014 war er Fellow an der renommierten American Academy in Berlin.