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Author Weingarten, Gene, author.

Title One day : the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America / Gene Weingarten.

Publication Info. New York : Blue Rider Press, [2019]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  973 WEI    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  973 WEI    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973 WEI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973 WEINGARTEN    Check Shelf

Description 375 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen completely at random--turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year's turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. One Day asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we are talking about how we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human"-- Provided by publisher.
"The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
United States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
HISTORY / United States / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780399166662 (hardback)
0399166661
9780698135598 (ebook)
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