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The unwinding : an inner history of the new America / George Packer

Packer, George, 1960-

1. paperback ed.

New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

VI, 434 S.

Englisch

Part I1978 -- Dean Price -- Total War : Newt Gingrich -- Jeff Connaughton -- 1984 -- Tammy Thomas -- Her Own : Oprah Winfrey -- 1987 -- Jeff Connaughton -- Dean Price -- Mr. Sam : Sam Walton -- 1994 -- Jeff Connaughton -- Tammy Thomas -- Just Business : Jay-Z -- Silicon Valley -- 1999 -- Biography : Alice Waters -- Dean Price -- Tammy Thomas -- 2003 -- Institution Man (1) : Colin Powell -- Jeff Connaughton -- Part II -- Dean Price -- Biography : Andrew Breitbart -- Tampa -- 2008 -- Silicon Valley -- Institution Man (2) : Robert Rubin -- Jeff Connaughton -- Tammy Thomas -- Dean Price -- Tampa -- Part III -- Jeff Connaughton -- 2010 -- Biography : Elizabeth Warren -- Tampa -- Dean Price -- Tammy Thomas -- Tampa -- Wall Street -- 2012 -- Silicon Valley -- Jeff Connaughton -- Tampa -- Tammy Thomas -- Dean Price.

Literaturverz. S. [431] - 434

978-0-374-53460-8 (paperback)

OCoLC: 931651525     

OCoLC: 889725214 (aus SWB)     

LB 40610  | MG 70920  | HD 470      Ähnliche Literatur

E839

973.924 ; 306.09

Basisklassifikation: 15.08 (Sozialgeschichte) ; 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*USA ; Soziale Situation ; Sozialpolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Geschichte 1984-2014 ; Biografie      Zum Register

*USA ; Soziale Situation ; Sozialpolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Krise ; Biografie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social problems -- United States ; Crises -- United States ; Politicians -- United States -- Biography ; Celebrities -- United States -- Biography ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- ; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989- ; United States -- Biography ; United States -- History -- 1969-

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