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Author Packer, George, 1960-

Title The unwinding : an inner history of the new America / George Packer.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  973.924 PACKER    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description viii, 434 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-434).
Contents Pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. Jeff Connaughton ; 2010 ; Citizen journalist : Andrew Breitbart ; Tampa ; Dean Price ; Tammy Thomas ; Tampa ; Prairie populist : Elizabeth Warren ; Wall Street ; 2012 ; Silicon Valley ; Jeff Connaughton ; Tampa ; Tammy Thomas ; Dean Price.
Summary Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer 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.
Subject United States -- History -- 1969-
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020
United States -- Biography.
Social problems -- United States.
Crises -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Politicians -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Added Title Inner history of the new America
ISBN 9780374102418 hardback
0374102414 hardback
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