The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life - Rilegato

Geoghegan, Thomas

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9780679421535: The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life

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ISBN 10: 067942153X ISBN 13: 9780679421535

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1998

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Combining memoir and observation, the author explores the shifting role of the federal government in Americans' pursuit of the good life

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"This is unlike any public-policy book I've ever read: part Catcher in the Rye, part The Road to Wigan Pier, part The Federalist Papers, it is mesmerizing, rueful, painfully honest, and never, ever dull. As a personal account, it makes vivid the experience of an idealistic generation that has watched helplessly as the country moved away from its dreams. As a work of social philosophy, it gets far beyond the political byplay of the moment and makes us understand, and want to change, the structural forces that have brought about the failure of the national ideal." --Nicholas Lemann, author of The Promised Land

"Tom Geoghegan's Secret Lives of Citizens is an extraordinary piece of work. It has the essential trait of a memorable book, in that after reading it you look at daily life in a lastingly different way. Geoghegan's style is unique in modern nonfiction writing--quirky, funny, accessible, but at the same time successful in dealing with complex and weighty matters. I don't know anyone who has such an inviting, winsome way of addressing really major questions of how we live and how the world works." --James Fallows, author of Breaking the News

L'autore:

Thomas Geoghegan's essays and commentary have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and Slate, among other publications. His previous book, Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat On Its Back, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received a special citation from the PEN/Martha Award judges. Geoghegan lives in Chicago, where he is a practicing attorney.

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