{"product_id":"the-unwinding-an-inner-history-of-the-new-america","title":"The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Packer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES B ESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected by New York Times ' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Washington Post Best Political Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA New Republic Best Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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 The Unwinding , George Packer, author of The Assassins' 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMarch 4, 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Good \/ Paperback \/ George Packer","offer_id":51508868645162,"sku":"9780374534608","price":35.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/18377658.jpg?v=1778149775","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/the-unwinding-an-inner-history-of-the-new-america","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}