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America is in crisis. In the space of a generation, it has become more than ever a country of winners and losers, as industries have failed, institutions have disappeared and the country's focus has shifted to idolise celebrity and wealth. George Packer narrates the story of America over the past three decades, bringing to the task his empathy with people facing difficult challenges, his sharp eye for detail and a gift for weaving together engaging narratives. The "Unwinding" moves deftly back and forth through the lives of its people, 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 industrial Midwest attempting to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a political careerist in Washington; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire. Their stories are interspersed with biographical sketches of the era's leading public figures, from Oprah Winfrey to Steve Jobs, to create a rich, wise and very human portrait of the USA in these hard times. The "Unwinding" portrays a superpower coming apart at the seams, its elites and institutions no longer working, leaving ordinary people to improvise their own schemes for salvation. George Packer is also the author of "The Assassin's Gate", which was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by the "New York Times" and won the Helen Bernstein Book Award. "A tour de force ...A fascinating journey through an America that has largely remained hidden from view. There are echoes of Don DeLillo's Underworld in the scope of Packer's vision and his deft eye for language and detail." (Sunday Business Post).

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'Original, incisive, courageous, and essential. One of the best works of nonfiction I've read in years.' --Katherine Boo, Samuel Johnson-prize shortlisted author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers


'George Packer serves us the history of our own life and times in a magisterial look at the America we lost.' -- Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower and Going Clear


'The Unwinding is the extraordinary story of what s happened to our country over the past thirty years. George Packer gives us an intimate look into American lives that have been transformed by the dissolution of all the things that used to hold us together. The result is an epic wondrous, bracing, and true that will stand as the defining book of our time.' -- Dexter Filkins, author of The Forever War


'The Unwinding presents a big, gorgeous, sad, utterly absorbing panorama of the relentless breakdown of the American social compact over a generation. George Packer communicates the scope and the human experience of the enormous change that is his subject better than any writer has so far.' -- Nicholas Lemann, author of Redemption and The Promised Land


'The hearts and lives broken in this second great depression have now found their eloquent voice and fierce champion in George Packer. The Unwinding is an American tragedy and a literary triumph.' -- David Frum, author of Why Romney Lost and Patriots: A Novel


'George Packer has crafted a unique, irresistible contraption of a book. Not since John Dos Passos's celebrated U.S.A. trilogy, which The Unwindingrecollects and rivals, has a writer so cunningly plumbed the seething undercurrents of American life. The result is a sad but delicious, jazz-tempo requiem for the demise of the post-World War II American social contract. You will often laugh through your tears at these tales of lives of ever less quiet desperation in a land going ever more noisily berserk.' -- David M. Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Freedom From Fear and Over Here


.'As with George Orwell, each of Packer's sentences carries a pulse of moral force. This is a sweeping and powerful book that everyone should read.'

--David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z
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The Unwinding by George Packer is a remarkable, moving book on the USA in crisis, by the country's finest political writer.

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  • EditoreFaber and Faber
  • Data di pubblicazione2013
  • ISBN 10 0571251285
  • ISBN 13 9780571251285
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  • Numero di pagine448
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