The Unwinding

By George Packer

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences

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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• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Shane Parrish: “This book was described by Atul Gawande as a “sickening, riveting page turner on the financial destruction of the working class.” (I just started this so I don’t have any comments yet.)”