Evan Osnos

Wildland (MP3-Download)

The Making of America's Fury Ungekürzte Lesung. 1028 Min.
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Produktbeschreibung

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A sweeping and brilliant portrait'GUARDIAN 'A reportorial tour de force … Heart-rending, appalling and hard to put down' JANE MAYER 'Visionary in scope, compassionate in procedure … Definitive' AYAD AKHTAR Evan Osnos moved to Washington, DC, in 2013 after a decade away from the United States. While abroad, he often found himself making a case for America, urging the citizens of Egypt, Iraq or China to trust that even though America had made grave mistakes throughout its history, it aspired to some foundational moral commitments – the rule of law, the power of truth, the right of equal opportunity for all. But when he returned to the United States, he found each of these principles under assault. In search of an explanation for the crisis, he focused on three places he knew firsthand: Greenwich, Connecticut; Clarksburg, West Virginia; and Chicago, Illinois. Reported over the course of six years, Wildland follows ordinary individuals as they navigate the varied landscapes of twenty-first-century America. Through their powerful, often poignant stories, Osnos traces the sources of America's political dissolution. He finds answers in the rightward shift of the financial elite in Greenwich; in the collapse of social infrastructure and possibility in Clarksburg; and in the compounded effects of segregation and violence in Chicago. The truth about the state of the nation may be found not in the slogans of political leaders but in the intricate details of individual lives, and in the hidden connections between them. A dramatic, prescient examination of seismic changes in American politics and culture, Wildland is the story of a crucible, a period bounded by two shocks to America's psyche, two assaults on the country's sense of itself: the attacks of September 11 in 2001 and the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Following the lives of everyday Americans in three cities across two decades, Osnos illuminates the country in a startling light, revealing how it lost the moral confidence to see itself as larger than the sum of its parts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526637864
• Artikelnr.: 70157758

Autorenporträt

Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a CNN contributor, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Based in Washington D.C., he writes about politics and foreign affairs. He was the China Correspondent at The New Yorker from 2008 to 2013. His first book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the 2014 National Book award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2020, he published the international bestseller, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, based on interviews with Biden, Barack Obama, and others. Prior to The New Yorker, Osnos worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Before his appointment in China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He and his wife, Sarabeth Berman, have two children.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. The Golden Triangle
2. Thoughts and Prayers
3. Jewel of the Hills
4. Mud City
5. Everyone Is Doing It (Take 1)
6. Everyone Is Doing It (Take 2)
7. You People
8. Getting Loaded
9. Buying Power
10. Ball-less Peckerheads
11. I Smell Freedom
12. Out of Their Slumber
13. Unmaking the Machines
14. The Combat Mindset
15. Radical Self-Reliance
16. The Body of Fact
17. The Antibodies
18. Faceless
19. Are We Going to Jail, Dad?
20. The Raging Fire
21. Behold the Land
Notes on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

A sweeping and brilliant portrait of a people subjected to fifty years of rightwing aggression . . . The most personal and the most powerful description yet . . . My hope is that everyone who reads this great book will be enraged enough to redouble their efforts to undo the damage the greedy have wrought, and to take back America for its decent citizens, once and for all