Screen LibraryThe unwinding : an inner history of the new America /
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...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
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 this book the author tells the story of the United States over the past three decades. The book 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 facto |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 434 pages ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2013 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9780374102418 0374102414 9780374534608 0374534608 |
| Index Number: | E839 |
| CLC: | K712.54 |
| Call Number: | K712.54/P119 |
| Contents: | 1978 -- Dean Price -- Total war: Newt Gingrich -- Jeff Connaughton -- 1984 -- Tammy Thomas -- Her own: Oprah Winfrey -- Jeff Connaughton -- 1987 -- Craftsman: Raymond Carver -- 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 -- 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 -- Jeff Connaughton -- |