{"product_id":"9781466836952","title":"The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 2013 National Book Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of Amazon's Best Books of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post \u003c\/i\u003eBest Political Book of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn NPR Best Book of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Nonfiction Books of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/i\u003eBest Nonfiction Book of 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmerican democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In \u003ci\u003eThe Unwinding\u003c\/i\u003e, George Packer, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e     The Unwinding \u003c\/i\u003ejourneys through the lives of several Americans, 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 Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future. Packer interweaves these intimate stories with biographical sketches of the era's leading public figures, from Newt Gingrich to Jay-Z, and collages made from newspaper headlines, advertising slogans, and song lyrics that capture the flow of events and their undercurrents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e     The Unwinding \u003c\/i\u003eportrays 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. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141296308464,"sku":"9781466836952","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466836952_p0.jpg?v=1763685510","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466836952","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}