{"product_id":"9780156027014","title":"The Best of Times: The Boom and Bust Years of America before and after Everything Changed","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWe were awash in money and spellbound by celebrity and scandal. It was a time of breathtaking strides in science and unprecedented possibility. A time of squandered opportunities and grave distraction. A time of tragic complacency and belief in our invulnerability. \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Best of Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson looks back on the decade that defied anyone's expectations, for better or worse. With a sharp eye for the quote or detail that perfectly captures a moment in time, Johnson tells the whole story, no holds barred, of the roller-coaster, self-indulgent nineties when America paid no attention to gathering foreign storms or looming economic collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe product of four years of interviews with the decade's most influential players, this is in the best tradition of timeless social history--a memorable portrait of the entire wonderful yet woeful decade that ended in the cataclysmic flames of September 11. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA James H. Silberman Book\u003cbr\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow with a New Foreword, Afterword, and Postscript\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn offering this paperback edition of the bubble years, I hope the stories I tell of that newly old America will illuminate how in a few short years we went from the best of times to the worst of times. In my Afterword, I suggest what lessons we must learn from that experience to avoid further disasters and close the circle on some events that typified the period. \u003cbr\u003e--Haynes Johnson\u003cbr\u003eFrom the new Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50021745000688,"sku":"9780156027014","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780156027014_p0.jpg?v=1784231911","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780156027014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}