{"product_id":"the-unwinding-an-inner-history-of-the-new-america-paperback","title":"The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Packer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES B\u003c\/i\u003eESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eBest Political Book\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerican 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding\u003c\/i\u003e, George Packer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding \u003c\/i\u003ejourneys 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding \u003c\/i\u003eportrays 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Packer\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author and staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the National Book Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eOur Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2013)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978450469165,"sku":"9780374534608","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/VHIxQ3hWQ3VXMDNMcmxDWmt1NFF4dz09.webp?v=1775805231","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-unwinding-an-inner-history-of-the-new-america-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}