The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (audio) by George Packer reader Robert Fass published: format: audio CD acquired: Library read: Jan rating: 4 Packer writes a history through biographies of the changes in the United from to right about He mixes in mini biographies of Newt Gingrich, Sam Walton, Oprah Winfrey, Robert Rubin, Peter Thiel, Elizabeth /5. In many ways, Packer’s The Unwinding is the story of how that loneliness came to be; how we have gone from a thriving society in which as de Tocqueville wrote “Americans of all ages, all stations of life and all types of disposition are forever forming associations” to /5(K). 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 The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past Cited by:
As George Packer writes in "The Unwinding," a gripping narrative survey of contemporary America, the Hartzells were "estranged from their surviving relatives, most of whom were heavy drinkers. The Unwinding 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. Packer's novelistic and kaleidoscopic history of the new America is his most ambitious work to date. American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unpreceden.
The Unwinding is the right title for George Packer's epic, sad and unsettling history of the last four decades in the US. His topic is the coming apart of something in the national fabric: the. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, 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. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America is a work of contemporary political science and history by the American journalist George Packer. It won the National Book Award in and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book explores the trajectory of the United States from to and argues that those years saw a diminishing of the institutions, promises, and social connections that had united Americans in previous generations.
0コメント