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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Packer, George, 1960-     Subjects     Social problems -- United States.     Politicians -- United States -- Biography.     Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.     National Book Awards.     United States -- History -- 1969-     United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-     United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-     United States -- Economic conditions.     United States -- Civilization.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Packer, George, 1960-       by title:      The unwinding : an i...       by call number:      973.924 P119i     Search the Web     Packer, George, 1960-     Social problems -- United States.     Politicians -- United States -- Biography.     Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.     National Book Awards.     United States -- History -- 1969-     United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-     United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-     United States -- Economic conditions.     United States -- Civilization.       MARC Display

The unwinding : an inner history of the new America / George Packer. by Packer, George, 1960- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. Call #: 973.924 P119i Subjects Social problems -- United States.   Politicians -- United States -- Biography.   Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.   National Book Awards.   United States -- History -- 1969-   United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-   United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-   United States -- Economic conditions.   United States -- Civilization. ISBN:  9780374102418 (hc.) 0374102414 (hc.) Alternate title:  Inner history of the new America Edition:  1st ed. Description:  viii, 434 p. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Contents:  Pt. 1. 1978 ; Dean Price ; Total War : Newt Gingrich ; Jeff Connaughton ; 1984 ; Tammy Thomas ; Her Own : Oprah Winfrey ; Jeff Connaughton ; 1987 ; Dean Price ; Tammy Thomas ; Mr. Sam : Sam Walton ; 1994 ; Jeff Connaughton ; Silicon Valley ; 1999 ; Dean Price ; Tammy Thomas ; 2003 ; Institution Man (1) : Colin Powell -- Jeff Connaughton -- pt. 2. Dean Price ; Radish queen : Alice Waters ; Tampa ; Silicon Valley ; 2008 ; Institution Man (2) : Robert Rubin ; Jeff Connaughton ; Tammy Thomas ; Dean Price ; Just business : Jay-Z ; Tampa -- pt. 3. Jeff Connaughton ; 2010 ; Citizen journalist : Andrew Breitbart ; Tampa ; Dean Price ; Tammy Thomas ; Tampa ; Prairie populist : Elizabeth Warren ; Wall Street ; 2012 ; Silicon Valley ; Jeff Connaughton ; Tampa ; Tammy Thomas ; Dean Price. Summary:  "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"--Provided by publisher. Awards:  Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2013. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.924 P119i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 973.924 P119i Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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