The Unwinding

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George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which received several prizes and was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square, and two other works of nonfiction, Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and The Village of Waiting. His play, Betrayed, ran off-Broadway for five months in 2008 and won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play. His most recent book is Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade. He lives in Brooklyn.

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出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
作者:George Packer
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页数:448
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出版时间:2013-5-21
价格:USD 27.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9780374102418
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  • 美国 
  • 美国历史 
  • 历史 
  • 政治 
  • history 
  • 以史为鉴 
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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.

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A heavy book that chronicles the American dreams of many ordinary Americans who have felt betrayed by this great country, yet never giving up on it.

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以几个平常美国人的生活讲述了美国当代的社会和经济的变迁。侧重于非城市非海岸教育水平低的贫穷阶级,日子真是越来越没法过了,只能记恨于政客和企业家们。闪光点在于那些不甘于失败、努力把握政界/媒体/商户间机会出头的小市民们,那些无想法只能被动在超市拿最低小时工资的百姓永远是在最坏的结果之间没有任何出路。

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