The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
- ISBN-10
- 0374534608
- ISBN-13
- 9780374534608
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-04
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- George Packer
Description
Paints a picture of the last thirty years of life in America by following several citizens, including the son of tobacco farmers in the rural south, a Washington insider who denies his idealism for riches, and a Silicon Valley billionaire.
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