05030cam a2200733 4500 596587022 TxAuBib 20220729120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781427235947 1427235945 7f4f28bd-d729-42df-871e-3b8c80996daf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1245817 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Packer, George. The Unwinding [Libby] : An Inner History of the New America. Macmillan Audio, 2013. christmas gifts for dad. Newt Gingrich. american economy. hanukkah gift. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 496MB. xmas gifts for men. Journalists. democracy in america. books on tape. US politics. Donald Trump. Crisis. democrats and republicans. Current Events. best selling books. 2016 Presidential Election. reportage. audio books. Social Issues. current affairs. trumpism. Republican Party. Journalism. Sociology. audiobooks. economic collapse. Trump's America. political parties in america. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 496MB. Nonfiction. Business. Politics. HTML:NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK AN NPR BEST BOOK Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book A Washington Post Best Political Book A New Republic Best Book A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation 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, 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. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.. History. Media Type: Audiobook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. The New York Times Best Seller List. National Book Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-29 20:00:03. Fass, Robert. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1493-1/1245817-TheUnwinding.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/1245817-TheUnwinding.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7F4F28BD-D729-42DF-871E-3B8C80996DAF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1493-1/1245817-TheUnwinding.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/1245817-TheUnwinding.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7F4F28BD-D729-42DF-871E-3B8C80996DAF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXPOT